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Urea breath test (UBT)
The urea breath test (UBT) is a procedure for diagnosing the presence of a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) that causes inflammation, ulcers, and atrophy of the stomach. The test also may be used to demonstrate that H. pylori has…
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Show more- Trypanosoma cruzi The parasitic microorganism that causes Chagas disease. See: Chagas disease
- Food, functional Functional foods are 'those foods that encompass potentially healthful products including any modified food…
- GHB Known in Europe as Gamma-OH, this is gamma hydroxybutyrate, a colorless and odorless drug used illicitly for…
- Goitrogenic foods Goitrogenic are foods that can affect thyroid function by inhibiting synthesis of thyroid hormones, resulting…
- Adult-onset diabetes Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2
- Southern tick-associated rash illness A disease characterized by a rash like that in Lyme disease, recognized in the southeastern and south-central…
- Q.n.s. On a lab report, q.n.s. (or qns or QNS) means Quantity Not Sufficient. Not enough blood, urine or whatever to…
- X inactivation The phenomenon in a female by which one X chromosome (either the maternally or paternally derived X) is…
- DEXA Dual energy X-ray absorptometry. See: DXA
- Pediatric end stage liver disease See: PELD
- Runt-related transcription factor 1 See: Runx-1
- BMRs (biological response modifiers) Substances that stimulate the body's response to infection and disease. The body naturally produces small…