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Show more- Cancer, uterine See: Uterine cancer
- Locoregional Limited to a local region. See also: Locoregional anesthesia; Locoregional metastasis
- Cataract with poikiloderma atrophicans Also known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
- Episiotomy Episiotomy: A surgical procedure for widening the outlet of the birth canal to facilitate delivery of the…
- Familial A condition that is tends to occur more often in family members than expected by chance alone. A familial…
- Hepatomegaly An enlarged liver. 'Hepato-' comes from the Greek 'hepatikos' (of the liver) + 'megaly' from the Greek…
- Barium enema x-ray See: Lower GI series
- Treadmill test A test (sometimes called the exercise treadmill test or exercise test) in which a continuous…
- Beta-secretase An enzyme that appears to be directly involved in the early development of Alzheimer's disease…
- Viral Of or pertaining to a virus. For example, 'My daughter has a viral rash.
- Gene duplication An extra copy of a gene. Gene duplication is a key mechanism in evolution. Once a gene is duplicated, the…
- Obtunded Mentally dulled. A person may be obtunded due to head trauma. To obtund is to dull or blunt. From the Latin…