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Induced menopause
Menopause: Menopause may be due to an unusual ('unnatural') event. It is induced when the ovaries are surgically removed (by bilateral oophorectomy) or when the ovaries are gravely damaged by radiation, chemotherapy or other medications…
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Show more- Septuagenarian Someone in his or her seventies. See also: Age by decade
- Therapy, cell Treatment with cells. A technology that relies on replacing diseased or dysfunctional cells with healthy…
- Leishmania infection A parasitic disease, also called leishmaniasis, spread by the bite of sand flies infected with a protozoa…
- Bronchopulmonary segments A subdivision of one lobe of a lung based on the connection to the segmental bronchus. For example, the right…
- Breast cancer gene One of the genes that contributes to breast cancer. See also: BRCA breast cancer gene
- Cholecystectomy Adding=0 width='100%' border=0> ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%'…
- Thyroid hormone A chemical substance made by the thyroid gland for export into the bloodstream. The thyroid gland needs…
- Hypnic jerk The common normal phenomenon of jerking awake, usually accompanied by a feeling of falling, just as one is…
- Agonist maintenance treatment See: Methadone treatment program
- Posteroanterior (PA) In anatomy, posteroanterior (PA) means from back-to-front. For example, a PA X-ray of the chest is taken from…
- Medicine, occupational The field of medicine encompassing diseases due to factors in the occupation of people. Occupational medicine…
- Neurectomy The removal of part or all of a nerve