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Nuclear medicine
The branch of medicine concerned with the use of radioisotopes in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of disease. Nuclear medicine uses small amounts of radioactive materials or radiopharmaceuticals, substances that are attracted to…
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Show more- Posthitis Inflammation of the prepuce (the foreskin of the penis). In the uncircumcised male, posthitis and balanitis…
- Chicken soup Long known as Jewish penicillin. See: Jewish penicillin
- Female condom Although the word 'condom' usually conjures up the male condom, there is a female condom. The Reality Female…
- Parthenogenesis Development of a germ cell without fertilization. This is what happens in the formation of ovarian teratomas…
- Sodium perchlorate See: Perchlorate
- Weissenbacher-Zweymuller syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- NIDA Stands for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., whose…
- Alternating hemiplegia syndrome See: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Femur The femur is the bone in the leg that extends from the hip to the knee. The femur constitutes the upper leg…
- Study, linkage A study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Linkage is the tendency for genes and other genetic…
- Compression, biliary See: Biliary compression
- Teleology The study of the ultimate purpose of the design of something in nature. For example, 'what is the true…