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Placental chorioangioma
A benign vascular (blood vessel) tumor of the placenta (afterbirth). Large chorioangiomas cause complications including excess amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios), maternal and fetal clotting problems (coagulopathies), premature delivery…
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- DHRD Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy, an eye disease also known as malattia leventinese. See: Malattia…
- HTR1A A gene on chromosome 5 that encodes a type of receptor for serotonin. See: 5-HT1A
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type II Hunter syndrome, due to deficiency of the enzyme iduronate sulfatase. See also: Mucopolysaccharidosis
- Supplies kit, disaster You and your family can cope best by preparing for disaster before it strikes. One way to prepare is by…
- Stereotactic needle biopsy A biopsy in which the spot to be biopsied is located three-dimensionally, the information is entered into a…
- Gland, Cowper's See: Bulbourethral gland
- Syndrome, TMJ Disorder of the temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) causing pain usually in front of the ear. Pain in the TMJ can…
- Parturition Childbirth, the process of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside…
- Quinquagenarian Someone in his or her fifties. See also: Age by decade
- Stewart, Alice (1906-2002) English physician and epidemiologist who discovered the connection between fetal X-rays and…
- Messenger RNA The key intermediary in gene expression, translating the DNA's genetic code into the amino acids that make up…