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Voiding cystourethrography. Or voiding cystourethrogram
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Show more- Placenta, low Location of the placenta in the lower part of the uterus (womb) so that the placenta partially or completely…
- Activase Brand name of alteplase, a tissue plasminogen activator made by recombinant DNA technology. See: Tissue…
- Drosophila The fruit fly. One species, Drosophila melanogaster, is a favorite model organism in genetics and…
- Antigen A substance that is capable of causing the production of an antibody. Antigens may or may not lead to an…
- Intravenous cholangiogram Feeding through a vein. Also called parenteral alimentation or parenteral nutrition.
- Familial polyposis of colon, autosomal recessive See: MYH
- Keratoplasty Corneal transplant.
- Copy number polymorphism Abbreviated CNP. A normal variation in DNA due to variation in the number of copies of a sequence within the…
- Eclosion The emergence of an adult insect from its pupal case, or the hatching of an insect larva from an egg. From…
- Dislocation of the radial head See: Nursemaid's elbow
- Low vision A visual impairment, not corrected by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery, that interferes…
- Chromosome, dicentric A chromosome in the stage of the cell cycle (the sequence of events in the life of a cell) when a chromosome…