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Cancer, endometrial
See: Endometrial cancer
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- Allergy Allergy: A misguided reaction to foreign substances by the immune system, the body system of defense against…
- Microvascular Pertaining to the microvasculature, the portion of the vasculature of the body consisting of the smaller…
- Bursopathy Disease involving a bursa, a closed fluid-filled sac that supplies a gliding surface to reduce friction…
- Microdeletion The loss of a tiny piece of a chromosome, a piece so small its absence is not apparent on ordinary…
- Secretary's knee The patellofemoral syndrome (PFS), the commonest cause of chronic knee pain. PFS characteristically causes…
- Overbreathing See: Hyperventilation
- Vaccination, hepatitis A See: Hepatitis A immunization
- Perfluorooctanoic acid PFOA. See: Perfluorinated acid
- Foot, athlete A skin infection caused by a fungus called Trichophyton which can thrive and infect the upper layer of the…
- Primary tumor A tumor that is at the original site where it first arose. For example, a primary brain tumor is one that…
- BAEP (brainstem auditory evoked potentials) See: ABR test