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Breast trauma
Breast trauma: Physical damage to a breast. If a breast is injured by trauma, tiny blood vessels may rupture to cause localized bleeding (a hematoma). The hematoma can be felt as a lump. Trauma to the breast can also damage the fat cells…
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- Mental retardation, blindness, deafness, seizures Seizures: A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X-linked mental…
- Fracture, comminuted A fracture in which bone is broken, splintered or crushed into a number of pieces. NTER> A fracture is a…
- Gynecomastia Excessive development of the male breasts. Temporary enlargement of the breasts is not unusual or abnormal in…
- Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) A form of computed tomography (CT) technology for diagnostic imaging. In MDCT, a two-dimensional array…
- Appendiceal cancer See: Appendix cancer
- Kilocalorie The term used to represent the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a liter of water one…
- Ovarian cancer test CA 125 See: CA 125
- Lumen A luminous term referring to the channel within a tube such as a blood vessel or to the cavity within a…
- System, locomotive The system that permits locomotion, movement from one place to another. The key components of this system are…
- NREM sleep Sleep: NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep is dreamless sleep. During NREM, the brain waves on the…
- Richard L. Varco See: Varco, Richard L.