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Map-dot-fingerprint type corneal dystrophy
A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows geographic map-like lines, dots (or microcysts), and grayish fingerprint lines on examination with a slit-lamp, a device that focuses a high intensity light…
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- Direct-entry midwife A midwife who has entered the profession of midwifery as an apprentice to a practicing midwife rather than…
- Prenatal surgery The surgical treatment of the fetus before birth. Also called antenatal surgery or, most often, fetal…
- Inflammation, bladder See: Bladder inflammation
- Lens, intraocular See: Intraocular lens
- Biotherapy Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease…
- Atrophy, peroneal muscular Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Syndrome, long QT See Long QT syndrome
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Scarring throughout the lungs without an identifiable cause. See: Pulmonary fibrosis
- Screening mammogram Mammogram: A mammogram (an X-ray of the breast) in women who have no signs of breast cancer. It usually…
- Asplenia The absence of a spleen or one that functions. (The spleen can be functionally destroyed, as occurs in…
- Liver shunt Transjugular, intrahepatic, portosystemic shunt (TIPS), is a shunt (tube) placed between the portal vein…