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- MRSI Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
- FOBT Fecal occult blood test
- Food irradiation A food safety technology designed to eliminate disease-causing germs from foods. Treating food with ionizing…
- Radioactive iodine An isotope of the chemical element iodine that is radioactive. Radioactive iodine is used in diagnostic tests…
- Braxton Hicks contractions Irregular contractions of the womb (the uterus) occurring towards the middle of pregnancy in the first…
- Epilation Removal of body hair, including the hair root, by means of electrical device, tweezer, or wax. Epilation may…
- Transplantation, cross-species A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow…
- Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease: A progressive neurologic disease of the brain that leads to the irreversible loss of…
- Marburg disease The virus that causes Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a disease which affects both humans and non-human primates…
- Prion A disease-causing agent that is neither bacterial nor fungal nor viral and contains no genetic material. A…
- RFID Radio frequency identification, a system for remotely storing and retrieving data. RFID tags can serve to…