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Strabismus surgery
Surgery for strabismus, a condition in which the visual axes of the eyes are not parallel and the eyes appear to be looking in different directions. The concern is that the brain may come to rely more on one eye than the other and that the…
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- Cholescintigraphy Cholescintigraphy: A diagnostic test in which a two-dimensional picture of a radiation source in the biliary…
- Hemodialysis catheter See: Catheter, hemodialysis
- Herbalism The practice of making or prescribing herbal remedies for medical conditions. Practitioners of herbalism may…
- Base in DNA A unit of the DNA. There are 4 bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). The sequence…
- Flutter, atrial Well-organized but overly rapid contractions of the atrium of the heart (usually at a rate of 250-350…
- Adrenal gland One of a pair of small glands, each of which sits on top of one of the kidneys. The adrenal is made up of an…
- Section, Cesarian The obstetrical procedure is often spelled this way in the U.S. with just an 'e'although the Roman emperor…
- Hardy, James D. Pioneering American transplant surgeon responsible for three epochal operations: the first human lung…
- Radial keratotomy An eye surgery procedure designed to flatten the cornea, reducing its optical power, to correct…
- Muscular dystrophy, distal One of two genetic muscle diseases characterized by wasting of the muscles most distant from the midline…
- Adult-onset diabetes Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2