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Drug, ACE-inhibitor
A drug that inhibits ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) which is important to the formation of angiotensin II. Angiotensin II causes arteries in the body to constrict and thereby raises the blood pressure. ACE inhibitors lower the blood…
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Show more- Still's Disease See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid.
- Infantile hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism (subnormal activity of the thyroid gland) that starts after birth and is manifest by features…
- Counterpulsation A technique that synchronizes the external pumping of blood with the heart's cycle to assist the circulation…
- Anonymize Or anonymise. To remove the name. To make nameless. 'Data for more than 60 variables were extracted from…
- Virus, xenotropic A virus that can grow in the cells of a species foreign to the normal host species, a species different from…
- Pulmonary artery catheter Also called a Swan-Ganz catheter. A light flexible balloon-tipped tube that is introduced into the pulmonary…
- Peritonsillar abscess A collection of pus behind the tonsils that pushes one of the tonsils toward the uvula (the prominent soft…
- Joint >Gliding -- one bony surface glides on another without angular or rotatory movement; >Angular -- occurs only…
- Hydranencephaly A condition in which the cerebral hemispheres of the brain are absent and replaced by sacs filled with…
- State, hypercoagulable A hypercoagulable state is the medical term for a condition in which there is an abnormally increased…
- Vater, ampulla of See: Ampulla of Vater
- FET1 See: ETM1