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LVAD
Left ventricular assist device. See: Ventricular assist device
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- DNA assembly The process of putting fragments of DNA that have been sequenced into their correct chromosomal positions…
- Institutional Review Board IRB. A group of scientists, doctors, clergy, and consumers at each health care facility that participates in…
- Vena cava syndrome, superior The symptoms that result from compression of the large vein that carries blood down to the heart. The…
- Hormone, secretin Hormone made by glands in the small intestine that stimulates pancreatic secretion. The word 'hormone' was…
- Meatus An opening or passageway. For example, the female urethral meatus. The urethra is the transport tube from the…
- Pauling, Linus The alpha helix, the structure of most proteins, discovered by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey. See: Alpha…
- HCM Abbreviation for hematocrit. The hematocrit is the proportion, by volume, of the blood that consists of red…