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Constrictive pericarditis
Scarring of the pericardial sac. This limits the ability of the heart to function because it cannot expand enough to collect blood and pump it to the lungs and then back to the body. Bleeding into the pericardium from trauma or from a…
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- Barbat skullcap See: Scutellaria barbata
- Mutation, germline Mutation, germline: A heritable change in the DNA that occurred in a germ cell (a cell destined to become an…
- Category 1 storm See: Category two hurricane.
- Schistosomiasis Diseases of liver, gastrointestinal tract and bladder caused by schistosomes, trematode worms that parasitize…
- Dorothy Hodgkin See: Hodgkin, Dorothy
- Avascular necrosis of the femoral head See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Registry, tumor See: Tumor registry. And, for more information, see: Cancer registry
- Triglycerides The major form of fat. A triglyceride consists of three molecules of fatty acid combined with a molecule of…
- Lobar Having to do with a lobe. For example, lobar pneumonia.
- Abscission To remove tissue by cutting it away, as in surgery
- Colon The part of the large intestine that runs from the cecum to the rectum as a long hollow tube that serves to…