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Colchicine
Colchicine: A substance found in a plant that is used in clinical medicine for the treatment of gouty arthritis and in the laboratory to arrest cells during cell division (by disrupting the spindle) so their chromosomes can be visualized…
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- Compression, nerve See: Nerve compression
- C. difficile Clostridium difficile
- Vasoconstriction Narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contracting of the muscular wall of the vessels. The opposite…
- Hippocrates Rally credited with turning away from divine notions of medicine and using observation of the body as a basis…
- Counterpulsation A technique that synchronizes the external pumping of blood with the heart's cycle to assist the circulation…
- Window, round The trachea, a tube-like portion of the respiratory (breathing) tract that connects the larynx (the voicebox)…
- Magnesia Named after a town in present day Turkey where an ore containing magnesium carbonate was mined. Milk of…
- Ventricle, right The ventricles are the two lower chambers of the heart. The right ventricle is the chamber that receives…
- Chronic daily headache See: Headache, chronic daily
- Blue baby operation A surgical procedure for a baby who is cyanotic (blue) due to a heart malformation that prevents blood from…
- B-type natriuretic peptide A 32-amino-acid polypeptide secreted by the ventricles of the heart in response to excessive stretching of…