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ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy
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Show more- NIDCR (National Institute of Dental Research) Al Research: One of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., the NIDCR is for dental and other…
- Partial seizure A seizure that affects only one part of the brain. Symptoms depend on which part is affected. One part of the…
- Lymphatic tissue A part of the body's immune system that helps protect it from bacteria and other foreign entities. Lymphatic…
- Constipation Constipation: Infrequent (and frequently incomplete) bowel movements. The opposite of diarrhea, constipation…
- Hirsutism Having an overabundance of hair. A person with hirsutism is said to be hirsute (pronounced hir-suit)…
- Metaphase (cell cycle) The stage in the cell cycle (the sequence of events in the life of a cell) when a chromosome is most highly…
- Glaucoma, low tension See: Glaucoma, normal tension
- Gland, adrenal One of a pair of small glands, each of which sits on top of one of the kidneys. The adrenal is made up of an…
- Vasovagal reaction A reflex of the involuntary nervous system that causes the heart to slow down (bradycardia) and that, at the…
- Antibody cross reactivity The ability of an antibody to react with similar antigenic sites on different proteins
- Loss-of-function mutation A mutation that results in reduced or abolished protein function. Gain-of-function mutations,which are much…
- Scullcap See: Scutellaria barbata