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Surgery, retrograde intrarenal (RIRS)
Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) is a procedure for doing surgery within the kidney using a viewing tube called a fiberoptic endoscope. In RIRS the scope is placed through the urethra (the urinary opening) into the bladder and then…
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- Claustrophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of closed spaces, of being closed in or being shut in, as in elevators…
- Stapes A stirrup-shaped bone in the middle ear. The stapes transmits sound vibrations from the incus, another little…
- Dermatoglyphic Pertaining to dermatoglyphics -- the study of dermal ridges on the fingers, palms, toes, and soles
- Ichthyosis vulgaris A genetic skin disease that is characterized by scaly (fishlike) areas of skin. The first scaly skin problems…
- Infertility Infertility: The diminished ability or the inability to conceive and have offspring. Infertility is also…
- Mutism, akinetic A state in which a person is unspeaking (mute) and unmoving (akinetic). A textbook on clinical neurology…
- Pronator foot type A type of foot that rolls far inward during the weight-bearing phase of the stride. This type of foot is…
- Endoscopy, upper A common type of endoscopy is upper endoscopy, also called esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). In this…
- Bile Bile is a yellow-green fluid that is made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder and passes through the…
- Cutaneous Relating to the skin. As, for example, in cutaneous allodynia, a cutaneous papilloma, and cutaneous…
- Fever, familial Mediterranean (FMF) An inherited disorder featuring short recurring crises of severe abdominal pain and bouts of fever. Other…