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Replacement therapy, testosterone
The practice of giving testosterone to treat conditions in which the testes do not produce enough testosterone. This may be due to absence, injury, or disease. Testosterone is available in oral, IV, and patch forms. As with estrogen…
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- Corpus luteum cyst This type of functional ovarian cyst occurs after an egg has been released from a follicle. After this…
- Acanthamoeba A microscopic organism, an amoeba, found in soil, dust and fresh water (lakes, rivers, hot springs and hot…
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- Puberty Puberty: A complex biologic and psychologic process involving sexual development, accelerated growth, and…
- Disease, polygenic See Polygenic disease
- Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) A virus often referred to simply as the human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV). HTLV-II stands for human…
- Ozone A form of oxygen that consists of three atoms of oxygen, in contrast to normal atmospheric oxygen which…
- Artery disease, coronary See: Coronary artery disease
- Natural family planning Also known as fertility awareness, periodic abstinence and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- Blasts Immature blood cells. Leukemic blasts do not grow and age normally; they proliferate wildly and fail to mature
- Scan, CAT Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…