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Subway diet:
The Subway diet is a weight loss plan popularized in 2004 by Jared Fogle, who claims that he lost over 245 pounds in one year by eating sandwiches from the Subway chain. Fogle replaced his 10,000 calorie per day food consumption with one…
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Show more- CAT scan, spiral A conventional computerized axial tomography scan (CAT scan or CT scan) is an x-ray procedure which combines…
- TEE Transesophageal echocardiography. A diagnostic test which employs ultrasound waves to make images of the…
- Aortic insufficiency Incomplete closure of the aortic valve resulting in aortic regurgitation, the return of blood from the aorta…
- Presbycusis Age-related hearing loss with gradually progressive inability to hear, especially high frequency sounds…
- Fibrositis Also known as fibromyalgia. See: Fibromyalgia
- Apex From the Latin meaning summit, the apex is the tip of a pyramidal or rounded structure, like the lung or the…
- Enkephalinase See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase
- ADR Adverse drug reaction. See: Adverse reaction..
- BASE breast cancer gene A breast cancer gene first reported in 2003 that encodes a protein secreted only by breast cancer and…
- LHRH agonist A compound that is similar to LHRH (luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone) in structure and is able to act…
- BP1 Beta protein 1, a protein encoded by a member of the homeobox gene family, a group of genes important to…
- Growth, normal See: Normal growth