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Tympanostomy tube
A small plastic tube inserted into the eardrum to keep the middle ear aerated for a prolonged period of time. These ventilating tubes usually remain in place for 6 months to several years. Eventually, they move out of the eardrum (extrude)…
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Show more- Bones of the leg, ankle and foot Are 62 lower extremity bones. They consist of 10 hip and leg, 14 ankle and 38 foot bones. > >The 10 hip and…
- Phago- Fix): Eating, devouring. From the Greek 'phago' meaning 'to eat.' Examples of words starting with phago-…
- Blister, blood A blister full of blood due to a pinch, bruise or repeated friction. A blister is medically termed a vesicle…
- Kiddie-cam See: Kiddie cam
- Multidetector CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Ornithine An amino acid that is not found in protein but is important in the formation of urea and the disposal of…
- Addisonian anemia Anemia: A blood disorder caused by a lack of vitamin B12. Patients who have this disorder do not produce the…
- Full gene sequence The complete order of bases in a gene. This order determines which protein a gene will produce
- Elbow, cellulitis of the Inflammation of the skin around the elbow due to infection (cellulitis) commonly occurs as a result of…
- Ocular melanoma See: Melanoma, ocular
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome An overgrowth syndrome, whose clinical manifestations typically include macrosomia (large body size)…
- Cryptography The encoding and decoding of secret messages. Cryptography in genetics: The term 'cryptography' can be…