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Show more- Hepat- Having to do with the liver. Pronounced hi-'pa-tik. From the Latin hepaticus derived from the Greek hepar…
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut…
- Cuboid bone The cuboid bone is the outer bone in the instep of the foot. It is called the cuboid bone because it is…
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Pyrimidine One of the two classes of bases in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidine bases are thymine (T) and cytosine (C) in DNA…
- Stress test, physiologic Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic cardiac…
- Abdominal Relating to the abdomen, the belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the…
- Vesicatory A substance that causes tissue blistering. Also referred to as a vesicant
- Endocardial Pertaining to the endocardium, the inside lining of the heart
- Nonbacterial prostatitis Prostatitis: Inflammation of the prostate not due to bacterial infection. The prostate is a walnut-sized…
- Palpebra The eyelid. The plural is palpebrae and the adjective is palpebral, as in palpebral fissure
- Medicine, Chinese See: Traditional Chinese medicine