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- Glucose tolerance test See: Impaired glucose tolerance.
- Compulsive shopping An obsession with shopping that significantly interferes with the functioning of the individual. The signs…
- Dialysis machine Dialysis machine: A machine that filters a patient's blood to remove excess water and waste products when the…
- Coagulation In medicine, the clotting of blood. The process by which the blood clots to form solid masses, or clots. More…
- Pleurodesis A procedure that causes the membranes around the lung to stick together and prevents the buildup of fluid in…
- Deficiency, LCHAD Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) has been found to be associated in some cases with an abnormality of…
- Testing, anonymous Testing in which no name or other means is used to identify the person tested. There is total anonymity. For…
- Silver bullet Or magic bullet. 1. The perfect drug to cure a disease with no danger of side effects. The term magic bullet…
- Alpha-1 Short for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Syndrome, keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness See Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
- Genome, rice The first commercially important plant to have its genome sequenced. This feat, completed early in 2001, is…