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Catheter, Foley
A flexible plastic tube (a catheter) inserted into the bladder to provide continuous urinary drainage. The 'Foley' has a balloon on the bladder end. After the catheter is inserted in the bladder, the balloon is inflated (with air or fluid)…
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Show more- Off-pump surgery A technique for heart surgery designed to avoid use of the heart-lung machine. The technique permits surgery…
- Metatarsus The part of the foot that lies just beyond the tarsus, between the tarsus and the toes. The skeleton of the…
- Eicosanoid A lipid mediator of inflammation derived from the 20-carbon atom arachidonic acid (20 in Greek is 'eicosa')…
- Paraneoplastic syndrome The collective signs and symptoms caused by a substance emanating from a tumor or in reaction to a tumor…
- Glucuronosyltransferase, UDP- A liver enzyme essential to the disposal of bilirubin (the chemical that results from the normal breakdown of…
- Mortality rate, neonatal The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The…
- Aortic valve One of the four valves in the heart, this valve is situated at exit of the left ventricle of the heart where…
- Sclerosis Localized hardening of skin
- Sterilization, male surgical Male surgical sterilization is done by vasectomy which involves sealing, tying or cutting a man's vas…
- Generic name, drug >The chemical name of a drug. >A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Nucleus 1) In cell biology, the structure that houses the chromosomes. 2) In neuroanatomy, a group of nerve cells
- Disease, Norwalk Disease due to Norwalk virus, not one but a family of small round viruses that are an important cause of…