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Clostridium difficile
A brain disorder in which there is an abnormal enlargement of the occipital horns of the brain --the posterior or rear portion of the lateral ventricles (cavities or chambers) of the brain. This enlargement occurs when there is an…
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Show more- Cancer, larynx Cancer of the voice box (the larynx) which is located at the top of the windpipe (trachea). Also called…
- Fear of worms (parasitic) Feverish.
- Dyspareunia The medical term for pain during sexual intercourse.
- Cervicectomy Surgical removal of the cervix, the lower portion of the uterus that protrudes into the vagina. Cervicectomy…
- Thioxanthene One of a group of drugs with antipsychotic activity which act by blocking postsynaptic (after-the-nerve)…
- Resect To remove. Resect and excise are not synonymous. Excise implies total removal whereas resect need not. A…
- Citrulline A non-standard amino acid that is not normally present in protein. Citrulline is created in the body as an…
- Colonoscopy Colonoscopy: A procedure in which a long flexible viewing tube (a colonoscope) is threaded up through the…
- Plasmapheresis A procedure designed to deplete the body of blood plasma (the liquid part of the blood) without depleting the…
- Snip A single base change, a change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that…
- Taenia armata Taenia solium
- Nephrectomy The surgical removal of a kidney. A nephrectomy can be radical, simple, or partial. The kidney, the adrenal…