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Hippocampus
An area buried deep in the forebrain that helps regulate emotion and memory. Functionally, the hippocampus is part of the olfactory cortex, that part of the cerebral cortex essential to the sense of smell. Certain antidepressants (such as…
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Show more- Assay, CEA CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) is a protein found in many types of cells but associated with tumors and the…
- Aggressive In oncology, quickly growing, tending to spread rapidly. As, for example, an aggressive tumor
- Medifast diet The Medifast diet is a low-fat, low-calorie weight loss plan based upon the consumption of specific foods and…
- Poison Control Center Special information centers set up to inform Americans about how to respond to potential poisoning. These…
- Lesbian Female homosexual. The name 'lesbian' comes from the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegian Sea where in…
- Tomography, computerized axial Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Bladder Any pouch or other flexible enclosure that can hold liquids or gases but usually refers to the hollow organ…
- Familial lung cancer Lung cancer that recurs in families. Lung cancer can occur sporadically in people with no known family…
- Omentum A sheet of fat that is covered by peritoneum. The greater omentum is attached to the bottom edge of the…
- Liver spot A pigmented flat spot on sun-exposed skin in older adults, especially on the back of the hands and on the…
- EVAR Endovascular aneurysm repair. A procedure to repair an aneurysm of the aorta. In EVAR a stent is placed in…
- Emboli Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli…