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Hereditary prostate cancer
Prostate cancer: A genetic form of prostate cancer. The risk of prostate cancer is clearly genetic. Men with a father or brother with prostate cancer are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as men with no affected relatives. The…
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- Fecal Relating to the feces, the stool. The excrement discharged from the intestines. From the Latin 'faex' and…
- Policy, Medigap See: Medigap policy>
- Reinnervation Restoration of nerve function after it has been lost. Reinnervation may occur spontaneously or be achieved by…
- Hyperglycemia Hyperglycemia: A high blood sugar. An elevated level specifically of the sugar glucose in the blood…
- Muscular dystrophy, oculopharyngeal A form of muscular dystrophy that begins in the muscles of the eyes and throat. It usually appears between…
- Cholangiogram, IV See: Intravenous cholangiogram
- Human T-lymphotropic virus type III An obsolete term for the human immunodeficiency virus, now commonly called HIV
- Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) is used to treat menopause. It reduces or stops the short-term changes of…
- Otoplasty Otoplasty: Plastic surgery to reshape the outer ear.
- Microvascular Pertaining to the microvasculature, the portion of the vasculature of the body consisting of the smaller…
- Encephalitis Inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis occurs, for example, in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. It may start (up…