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Hounsfield, Godfrey
(1919-2004) British electrical engineer whose contributions to the creation of the computerized axial tomography scanner (the CAT scan) won him a share of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979. Hounsfield shared the award…
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Show more- WBS Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome. See: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Fever, desert A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…
- Lacrimal gland A small almond-shaped structure that produces tears. The lacrimal gland is located just above the outer…
- Chinese restaurant syndrome A syndrome first described in 1968 in people who had eaten Chinese food on which MSG (monosodium glutamate)…
- EMG syndrome The exomphalos-macroglossia-gigantism syndrome. See: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Gln Glutamine. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Blindness, night Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the…
- Metered dose inhaler See: Metered-dose inhaler
- Gastroparesis Gastroparesis: Gastroparesis is a medical condition in which the muscle of the stomach is paralyzed by a…
- Thoracentesis Removal of fluid in the pleura through a needle
- McArdle's disease See: McArdle disease
- Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut A severe form of epilepsy that usually begins in early childhood and is characterized by frequent seizures of…