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SGPT
Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase, an enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. SGPT is released into blood when the liver or heart are damaged. The blood SGPT levels are thus elevated with liver damage (for example, from…
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Show more- Ulcerative colitis Ulcerative colitis: A relatively common disease that causes inflammation of the large intestine (the colon)…
- Onset In medicine, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness as, for example, the onset of…
- Velamentous insertion of umbilical cord An abnormal condition in which the umbilical cord does not insert into the placental mass but, instead…
- Insufficiency, small intestine See: Short bowel syndrome
- Plano In practical optics, a surface that has been worked flat
- Angiostatin Angiostatin is a piece (a fragment) of a protein, plasminogen, used normally in blood clotting. This fragment…
- Subluxation Partial dislocation of a joint. A complete dislocation is a luxation
- Shettles method A set of procedures proposed and popularized for sex selection by the gynecologist Landrum B. Shettles…
- Therapy, fever Fever: Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by…
- Vasopressin A relatively small (peptide) molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain after…
- Sternutator Something that causes a sneeze. From the Latin sternutatio (sneeze). See also: Sternutation
- Female internal genitalia The internal genital structures of the female, comprising the ovaries, the Fallopian tubes, the uterus…