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Infant, post-term
An overly mature baby that has not been born until well after the usual term pregnancy. A post-term baby is specifically one born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after the usual 9 months (280 days) of gestation. The gestation (length of the…
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Show more- United States Pharmacopeia Abbreviated USP. A publication, established in 1820, that contains legally recognized standards of identity…
- Esophagogastric tamponade A procedure in which a balloon is inflated within the esophagus and stomach to apply pressure on bleeding…
- Recurrence The return of a sign, symptom or disease after a remission. The reappearance of cancer cells at the same site…
- Sartorius muscle The long band of muscle that stretches from the calf to the pelvis. It moves the thigh and, by extension, the…
- Preoperative Before surgery. As opposed to postoperative, after surgery
- HNP Human neutrophil peptide
- Therapy, fever Fever: Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by…
- Sulci The plural of sulcus
- Anemia Anemia: The condition of having less than the normal number of red blood cells or less than the normal…
- Sarcoma botryoides A malignancy of the cervix, vagina, or bladder in infants and young children that arises from embryonal…
- Cranial nerve II The second cranial is the optic nerve, the nerve that connects the eye to the brain and carries the impulses…
- CA 15-3 A tumor marker most useful in following the course of treatment in women diagnosed with breast cancer…