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Coronary artery brachytherapy
Local radiation treatment within an artery to the heart. Coronary artery brachytherapy has been used to reduce the recurrence of blockage (obstruction) of a coronary artery after successful treatment of a blockage of a stent. A stent is a…
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Show more- Virginal membrane A thin membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening. This fold of mucous membrane is…
- Hyperaldosteronism Overproduction of the hormone aldosterone from the outer portion (cortex) of the adrenal gland or a tumor…
- Amenorrhea Absence or cessation of menstruation. Amenorrhea is conventionally divided into primary and secondary…
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy A form of muscular dystrophy that typically begins before age 20 with slowly progressive weakness of the…
- Digestive system The organs that are responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of it. These…
- Immunotherapy, allergy Stimulation of the immune system with gradually increasing doses of the substances to which a person is…
- Rad Radiation absorbed dose, a measure for a dose of ionizing radiation
- Urgency, urinary An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…
- Remodeling, chromatin See: Chromatin remodeling
- Eye, small Also called microphthalmia, an abnormally small eye, a congenital malformation (birth defect) of the globe…
- Sweating, gustatory Sweating on the forehead, face, scalp, and neck occurring soon after ingesting food. Some gustatory sweating…
- Recessive, autosomal A genetic condition that appears only in individuals who have received two copies of an autosomal gene, one…