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EOG
Electro-oculography. A type of electrophysiologic retinal testing
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Show more- Glu Glutamic acid. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Epilepsy, petit mal See: Petit mal
- Alveolitis Inflammation of the alveoli, the air sacs in the lungs
- Evolution, biologic Biologic evolution was contrasted with cultural (social) evolution in 1968 by A.G. Motulsky who pointed out…
- Respiratory distress syndrome, acute Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
- SEMG Surface EMG
- Autosomal dominant A pattern of inheritance in which an affected individual has one copy of a mutant gene and one normal gene on…
- Psoralen photochemotherapy See: PUVA
- Spine 1) The column of bone known as the vertebral column, which surrounds and protects the spinal cord. The spine…
- Glenn shunt A surgical operation for children born with cyanotic heart disease ('blue babies'), in which a large vein…
- Cholescintigraphy Cholescintigraphy: A diagnostic test in which a two-dimensional picture of a radiation source in the biliary…
- Dreams Thoughts, visions, and other sensations that occupy the mind in sleep. Dreams occur during that part of sleep…