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ALPS
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
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Show more- Bariatric surgery Surgery on the stomach and/or intestines to help a person with extreme obesity lose weight. Bariatric surgery…
- Incompetent cervix A cervix that is abnormally liable to dilate and so is not competent to keep the fetus up in the uterus and…
- Genome, C. elegans See: C. elegans genome.
- AHC Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Papillomatosis, laryngeal Laryngeal papillomatosis is the growth of numerous warty growths on the vocal cords. The disease is most…
- Troche A small medicated lozenge designed to dissolve. For example, to soothe the throat as a cough drop. Strictly…
- Laparoscopic staging A staging procedure for tumors of the abdomen using laparoscopy in combination with laparoscopic…
- GVHD Graft-versus-host disease
- SV40 Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus found in simians (nonhuman primates), SV40 has no relationship to the human…
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) Ascending infection of the female upper genital tract (the female structures above the cervix). PID is the…
- Cystine transport disease Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a…
- Arterial tension The pressure of the blood within an artery, the arterial pressure. Also called the intra-arterial pressure