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Sand, biliary
Biliary sand is a term mostly used by surgeons when they remove the gallbladder to describe uncountable, small particles in bile that are visible to the naked eye. Biliary sand may be looked upon as a stage in the growth of the particles…
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- Insufficiency, coronary See: Coronary insufficiency
- The Lancet A weekly medical journal headquartered in London. Published uninterruptedly and with the same title since…
- Esophageal stricture, acute A narrowing or closure of the normal opening of the swallowing tube leading to the stomach, usually caused by…
- CA 125 CA 125: A cancer marker, a protein normally made by certain cells in the body including those of the uterine…
- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile See: Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive
- Rate, heart Number of heart beats per minute. The normal resting adult heart beats regularly at an average rate of 60…
- RUL Acronym for the right upper lobe (of the lung). The right lung has three lobes: the right lower lobe (RLL)…
- Laminopathy A disease due to mutation of the lamin A/C gene. The laminopathies include: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy…
- African American An American of black African descent. The term may also be written with a hyphen as African-American. The…