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Lab
Short for a laboratory (or a Labrador retriever)
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- Blalock-Taussig operation A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric…
- Vibrio A group of bacteria that includes Vibrio cholerae, the agent of cholera, (a devastating and sometimes lethal…
- Lymph gland See Lymph node
- Syndrome, carcinoid A syndrome due to carcinoid tumor which secretes large amounts of the hormone serotonin. The syndrome is…
- ADR Adverse drug reaction. See: Adverse reaction..
- Micro- Prefix derived from the Greek 'mikros' meaning small. Examples of the many biomedical terms containing…
- Systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Abstinence, periodic Also known as fertility awareness, natural family planning, and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- Myelinization The formation of the myelin sheath around a nerve fiber. Also known as myelination
- Flu vaccine, nasal-spray See: Nasal flu vaccine
- Fibrous dysplasia, monostotic Excessive growth of hard fibrous tissue that replaces normal bone tissue in a single bone. Symptoms may…