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Mastectomy, subcutaneous
Removal of breast tissue using a minimal incision. This type of mastectomy may be used to remove small areas of suspicious or cancerous tissue, but can also be a cosmetic surgery procedure. For example, subcutaneous mastectomy can reduce…
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Show more- Long-term memory A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Ragged red fibers with CPEO See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Band, Q A form of chromosome band, one of the bright and dull fluorescent bands seen alternating along the length of…
- GALT The enzyme (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase) lack of which causes the genetic metabolic disease…
- Agreement, arbitration See: Arbitration agreement
- Lacrimal Pertaining to tears, as in lacrimal gland (tear gland). From the Indo-European dakru meaning a tear (from a…
- Bilious The adjective for bile, bilious has three meanings. It means of or relating to bile. By extension, bilious…
- Percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS) In PUBS, a needle is inserted through the mother's abdominal wall and the uterine wall. Blood can be…
- EFEMP1 A gene that encodes a protein with the long, complex name of EGF-containing fibulin-like extracellular matrix…
- LPA Little People of America. The abbreviation also for the left pulmonary artery
- Juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis Juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis involves the growth of numerous warty growths on the vocal cords in…
- Lungs The lungs are a pair of breathing organs located with the chest which remove carbon dioxide from and bring…