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Ear cleaning (by a doctor)
When so much wax accumulates that it blocks the ear canal (and hearing), your physician may have to wash it out, vacuum it, or remove it with special instruments. Alternatively, your physician may prescribe ear drops what are designed to…
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Show more- Squamous cell carcinoma in situ An early stage of skin cancer. Also known as Bowen's disease. This is a tumor that develops from the squamous…
- Preop Short for preoperative, before surgery. The opposite of preop is postop
- HAPE Acronym for High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, the accumulation in the lungs of extravascular fluid (fluid…
- Hallucinosis, musical See: Musical hallucination
- Elastic fiber A slender fiber in connective tissue that is rich in the protein elastin and has an elastic quality
- Purpura 1. A hemorrhagic area in the skin. The area of bleeding within the skin, by definition, is greater than 3…
- Proline An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A dietary nonessential amino acid, proline is a…
- Deficiency, glucocerebrosidase Causes type 1 Gaucher disease, a progressive genetic disease due to an enzyme defect. The enzyme…
- NF See: Neurofibromatosis type 1.
- Cholangiography, percutaneous transhepatic See Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
- Regulatory sequence A sequence of bases in DNA that controls gene expression
- Juvenile retinoschisis A genetic disease of the eye characterized by retinoschisis (splitting of the retina) symmetrically involving…