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Transplant, renal
Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a kidney transplant. Patients with end-stage renal failure are candidates for transplantation. A successful transplant frees the patient from dialysis…
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Show more- Travel-related disease A disease to which travelers are susceptible specifically because of their travel. Travel-related diseases…
- Ankylose To undergo ankylosis (stiffening or fusion of a joint)
- Purpura, anaphylactoid See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in which there a family history of the disease. Familial ALS constitutes…
- Pythagoras (Born c. 580 B.C.E.) Greek philosopher and mathematician who promoted health through a special vegetarian diet
- Genome, rice The first commercially important plant to have its genome sequenced. This feat, completed early in 2001, is…
- Coccygeal Referring to the coccyx, the small tail-like bone at the bottom of the spine, that is made up of 3-5 (average…
- Wasp sting A sting from a wasp, like that of other large stinging insects such as bees, hornets and yellow jackets…
- Wilms tumor An inherited disorder in which too much copper accumulates in the body. Although the accumulation of copper…
- Zenker diverticulum The most common type of outpouching in the esophagus, due to increased pressure causing the mucous membrane…
- Polygenic Pertaining to two or more genes. As opposed to monogenic. Eye color is polygenic. It is by determined by a…
- Single nucleotide polymorphism A change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that position. Abbreviated SNP and…