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Magnetic resonance elastography
An imaging technique used to measure the elasticity of tissue by gently shaking the tissue in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. The technique employs standard MRI equipment with a few modifications and a vibrating metal plate…
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Show more- Juvenile CML Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia. See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Deficiency, niacin See: Pellagra
- Brain edema See: Cerebral edema
- Breast aplasia Breast aplasia: A rare condition wherein the normal growth of the breast or nipple never takes place. They…
- Radiograph A film with an image of body tissues that was produced when the body was placed adjacent to the film while…
- Spastic dysphonia See: Spasmodic dysphonia
- Heterotrisomy Trisomy of different chromosomes. The occurrence of two children in the same family, one with trisomy 18 and…
- Chromatin modeling See: Chromatin remodeling
- Alveolus One of the tiny air sacs located at the very ends of the bronchioles within the lungs where the exchange of…
- Phantom limb syndrome The perception of sensations, usually including pain, in an arm or leg after the limb has been amputated. The…
- Fear of sexual intercourse An abnormal and persistent fear of male-female sexual intercourse. Sufferers of this fear experience undue…
- Pathophysiology Deranged function in an individual or an organ that is due to a disease. A pathophysiologic alteration is a…