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Functional hemispherectomy
A functional hemispherectomy is a variation of a hemispherectomy, a radical procedure in which one entire hemisphere, or one half of the brain, is removed. With a functional hemispherectomy, one hemisphere is disconnected from the rest of…
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- Heart disease Heart disease: Any disorder that affects the heart. Sometimes the term 'heart disease' is used narrowly and…
- Nose picking Rhinotillexomania, one of the more obscure and exotic terms in medicine. 'Rhinotillexomania' has drawn…
- Linkage The tendency for genes and other genetic markers to be inherited together because of their location near one…
- Colonic 1. See: Colonic (adjective). 2. See: Colonic (noun)
- Lymphoma Tumor of the lymphoid tissue. Diagnosis is by biopsy. Treatment may be chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or…
- Friend in dying See: Doula (the second meaning)
- Contact eczema, allergic Also called allergic contact dermatitis, this is a red, itchy, weepy reaction where the skin has come into…
- Skin erosion Skin erosion is a loss of some or all of the epidermis (the outer layer) leaving a denuded surface. Erosion…
- Southeast Asian hemorrhagic fever A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage…
- Avastin The first drug in a new class designed to treat cancer by compromising its blood supply. Avastin…