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Laryngectomee
A person who has had his or her larynx (voice box) removed. A partial laryngectomy preserves the voice. The surgeon removes only part of the voice box, just one vocal cord, part of a cord, or just the epiglottis, and the stoma is…
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Show more- PTC (percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography) See: Cholangiography, percutaneous transhepatic
- Paraparesis Weakness of the lower extremities
- Syndrome, Hermansky-Pudlak (HPS) See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Fusospirillary gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Scaffold 1. In genetics, the chromosome structure consisting entirely of nonhistone proteins remaining after all the…
- Angiopathy Disease of the blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries). There are two basic types of angiopathy…
- German disease Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the…
- Dystrophy, myotonic An inherited disease in which the muscles contract but have decreasing power to relax -- this phenomenon is…
- Adult T-cell lymphoma See: Adult T-cell leukemia
- HMS1 Homosexuality 1. An alleged gene for human male homosexuality. See: Gay gene
- Universal colitis Ulcerative colitis that involves the entire colon (the large intestine). Ulcerative colitis itself is a…
- Genetic transposition The ability of genes to change position on chromosomes, a process in which a transposable element is removed…