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Dropsy
An old term for the swelling of soft tissues due to the accumulation of excess water. In years gone by, a person might have been said to have dropsy. Today one would be more descriptive and specify the cause. Thus, the person might have…
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Show more- Leukemia, chronic phase of Leukemia, chronic phase of: A stage in which there are few blast cells in the blood or bone marrow, and few…
- Large bowel Another name for the large intestine. The word 'bowel' originated from the Latin 'botulus' meaning 'sausage.'
- Pill splitter A device for tablet splitting
- MIC-1 Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1. A divergent member of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily…
- Occipital 1. Pertaining to the occiput, the back of head. 2. Located near the occipital bone as, for example, the…
- Cognitive dysfunction, chemotherapy-related See: Chemobrain
- Extrauterine pregnancy A pregnancy that is not in the usual place and is located outside the inner lining of the uterus. A…
- QNS On a lab report, Quantity Not Sufficient. The sample is not large enough to do the test
- Antisense drug A medication containing part of the non-coding strand of messenger RNA (mRNA), a key molecule involved in the…
- Cruciate ligament, posterior The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Syndrome, Rothmund-Thomson See Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
- Werner-His disease Named for the German physician Heinrich Werner (who did not describe Werner's premature aging syndrome) and…