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Pressure urticaria
A common type of hives (urticaria) that occurs after the skin has been under pressure, often the feet after standing or the buttocks after sitting for a long time or areas where clothing is tight. The hives are typically deep and invisible…
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Show more- Superaspirin A class of drugs that act in certain but not all ways like aspirin. Also known as Cox-2 inhibitors, these…
- Anti-citrulline antibody See: Citrulline antibody
- Allergic purpura See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Anatomy The study of form. Gross anatomy involves structures that can be seen with the naked eye. It is as opposed to…
- Labia The lips, either the lips around the mouth (the oral labia) or the lip-like external female genitalia (the…
- Secondary pulmonary arterial hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Parietal Adjective from the Latin 'parietalis' meaning 'belonging to the wall' that the ancient anatomists used to…
- Genome, Caenorhabditis elegans See: Dog genome.
- GI tract Short for gastrointestinal tract. See: Gastrointestinal tract
- Multisection CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Thrombectomy Procedure to remove a clot (a thrombus)
- Platelet aggregation The clumping together of platelets in the blood. Platelet aggregation is part of the sequence of events…