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Transaminase, serum glutamic pyruvic (SGPT)
An enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells, and is released into blood when the liver or heart is damaged. Blood SGPT levels are thus elevated with liver damage (for example, from viral hepatitis) or with an insult to the…
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- Duodenitis Inflammation of the duodenum. (The duodenum is the first part of the small intestine.
- Vincent stomatitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Bambino The little child who is the infant in swaddling, the symbol of pediatrics, sculpted by the Florentine artist…
- Pregnancy, mask of Pigmentation of the cheeks of the face (malar area) that occurs in about half of women during pregnancy. The…
- NASH Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
- Skin graft, composite A graft technique in which both the patient's own skin and donor skin are used together
- Lamin A Abbreviated LMNA. A gene on chromosome 1 that encodes a protein which is a key component of the membrane…
- BMPR1A A gene located on chromosome 10 in band 10q22.3 that encodes bone morphogenic protein receptor 1A, a kinase…
- Anemia, Mediterranean Better known today as thalassemia (or as beta thalassemia or thalassemia major). The clinical picture of this…
- Unconsciousness, temporary A partial or complete loss of consciousness with interruption of awareness of oneself and ones surroundings…