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Glaucoma detection
You may know of the 'air puff' test or other tests used to measure eye pressure in an eye examination. But, this test alone cannot detect glaucoma. Glaucoma is found most often during an eye examination through dilated pupils after drops…
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- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile See: Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive
- Melanoma, intraocular See: Intraocular melanoma
- Roundworm A type of parasitic worm that hatches in the intestines and lives there. The eggs of the roundworm usually…
- Sleep disorders Sleep disorders: Any disorder that affects, disrupts, or involves sleep. The most common sleep disorder is…
- Rattlesnake bite A poisonous bite by a member of the pit viper family. All rattlesnakes are venomous and secrete poisonous…
- Obstetrician A physician who delivers babies and is in the practice of obstetrics, the art and science of managing…
- Human embryonic stem cell Stem cell: Also known as a human pluripotent stem cell, one of the 'cells that are self-replicating, are…
- FET1 See: ETM1
- Syndrome, Werner A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Sexually transmitted disease Any disease transmitted by sexual contact; caused by microorganisms that survive on the skin or mucus…
- Stem cell harvest, peripheral blood A technique for obtaining stem cells from the patient's blood for use in bone marrow transplantation. They…