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Laryngectomee
A person who has had his or her larynx (voice box) removed. A partial laryngectomy preserves the voice. The surgeon removes only part of the voice box, just one vocal cord, part of a cord, or just the epiglottis, and the stoma is…
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- Rickettsioses of the eastern hemisphere, tick-born There are 3 known diseases caused by infection with rickettsial agents. They are North Asian tick-borne…
- Immunization, DPT See: DPT immunization
- Syndrome, Peter Pan Term coined by pop psychology author Dan Kiley in his book 'Peter Pan syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up.'…
- Humor In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Cytogenetics, clinical The application of cytogenetics to clinical medicine. For example, clinical cytogenetic studies might be done…
- Hepatosplenomegaly Enlargement of the liver and spleen. The word 'hepatosplenomegaly' is compounded from Greek roots: 'hepato-'…
- Prostatitis, acute bacterial Prostatitis, acute bacterial: Inflammation of the prostate gland of sudden (acute) onset due to bacterial…
- Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) Distinguished Canadian-American bacteriologist and research physician and one of the founders of…
- Anomaly, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Food and Drug Administration The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Public Health Service, which is a part of the Department of Health and…