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PV
Stands for polycythemia vera, a condition characterized by overproduction (proliferation) of red blood cells due to bone marrow disease (myeloproferative disorder). PV tends to evolve into acute leukemia or a condition with the marrow…
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Show more- Anus The opening of the rectum to the outside of the body. The word 'anus' comes straight from the Latin. It…
- Pediatrics 'Pediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and adolescents, their growth and development…
- MMR Stands for the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine. The MMR vaccine is now given in two dosages. The first should…
- Flu vaccine, nasal-spray See: Nasal flu vaccine
- Shunt, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic A shunt that allows blood from the portal circulation (that supplies the liver) to flow into the systemic…
- Armed tapeworm Taenia solium
- Myriad A great number, a very large number, a huge number of something. There are, for example, myriad ways in which…
- Parathyroid gland A gland that regulates calcium, located behind the thyroid gland in the neck. The parathyroid gland secretes…
- Care, critical See: Critical care
- Dysphoria Anxiety
- Coronary artery spasm A spasm (a sudden constriction) of one of the coronary arteries depriving the (myocardium (the heart muscle)…
- Bulbar conjunctiva That part of the conjunctiva, a clear membrane of the eye, which covers the outer surface of the eye. The…