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Nasal septum hematoma
An accumulation of blood within the nasal septum, the wall inside the nose that runs down the middle dividing it into two sides. Most nasal septum hematomas are due to trauma. Treatment is incision (to drain the blood from the hematoma)…
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Show more- PTHC (percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography) See: Cholangiography, percutaneous transhepatic
- Fauces The throat. The word fauces is the plural of the Latin faux meaning a small passage.
- Hematoma, subdural See: Subdural hematoma
- Proteomics The study of the proteome, the complete set of proteins produced by a species, using the technologies of…
- Drop attack See: Atonic seizure
- Keratoma An area of hardened skin, usually called a callus
- Athymic Lacking a thymus gland
- Labia The lips, either the lips around the mouth (the oral labia) or the lip-like external female genitalia (the…
- Femoral Having to do with the femur or, less often, the thigh. As in the femoral head (the head of the femur), the…
- Severe congenital neutropenia Neutropenia: A genetic disorder of the bone marrow characterized by a lack of neutrophils, white blood cells…
- Peccant Unhealthy. Causing illness or disease. Peccant is one of those rarely used but apt words. The behaviors --…
- Fibrositis Also known as fibromyalgia. See: Fibromyalgia