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Show more- Medication, generic Drugs that act as blood vessel dilator (vasodilators) and open vessels by relaxing their muscular walls). For…
- Quincke's disease This is angioneurotic edema (or angioedema), a form of localized swelling of the deeper layers of the skin…
- Cytotoxic Toxic to cells, cell-toxic, cell-killing. Any agent or process that kills cells. Chemotherapy and…
- Open cholecystectomy Cholecystectomy: Surgery in which the abdomen is opened to permit cholecystectomy -- removal of the…
- Lyon hypothesis See Lyonization
- Matter, white The part of the brain that contains myelinated nerve fibers. The white matter is white because it is the…
- Heberden node A small fixed bump on the finger, usually at the last joint of the finger, Heberden's node is a calcified…
- Dystocia, shoulder See: Shoulder dystocia
- Albuminuria More than the normal amount of albumin in the urine. Albumin is the predominant protein in human blood and it…
- Melanoderma Increased skin pigmentation, darkening of the skin. This is directly due to an increased amount of melanin…
- Maimonides' prayer R of a Physician: A prayer that is said to have been written by the 12th-century physician-philosopher Moses…
- Athymic mouse A laboratory mouse lacking a thymus gland. Athymic mice have no T cells and useful in research because they…