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Disorder, bipolar
See: Bipolar disorder
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- Patient-controlled analgesia See: PCA
- Saphenous vein, small The smaller of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Trimox See: Amoxicillin
- Radioallergosorbent test An allergy test done on a sample of blood. The test is used to check for allergic sensitivity to specific…
- Breast development, early The beginning of breast development at puberty is known medically as thelarche. It is now a normal event at…
- Tarantism A disease once thought to result from the bite of the tarantula spider. This extraordinary affliction was…
- Vaccination, DPT See: DPT immunization
- Hepatic artery See: Liver biopsy.
- Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy See: Corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial
- Syndrome, radial aplasia-thrombocytopenia See Syndrome, TAR
- Influenza, Hong Kong See: Hong Kong flu