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Rhabdomyosarcoma
A malignant tumor that starts in muscle. Rhabdomyosarcoma is primarily a childhood tumor and occurs most often in children under 5 years of age. Over 60% of cases show up before age 10. On rare occasions, rhabdomyosarcoma affects adults…
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- PARK10 Familial Parkinson disease type 10
- IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) Irritable bowel syndrome): A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut…
- Drain, Jackson-Pratt See: JP drain
- Subject As a noun:1. A branch of learning that forms a course of study. In medical school, one of the subjects…
- Constitutional thrombopathy See: Von Willebrand disease
- Protein C A vitamin K-dependent protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the…
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone A hormone made by the hypothalamus that stimulates the release of corticotropin by the anterior pituitary…
- Lens, ocular In a microscope, the lens closest to the eye is termed the ocular (the eyepiece) whereas the objective (also…
- Pilonidal sinus A sinus tract from which there may be chronic drainage of pus, due to an embedded tuft of hair, most often in…
- T1-T12 (thoracic vertebrae) The symbols T1 through T12 represent the 12 thoracic vertebrae. The thoracic vertebrae are situated between…
- Clitoridectomy See Clitorectomy