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Exercise, aerobic
Brisk physical activity requiring the heart and lungs to work harder to meet the body's increased oxygen demand. Aerobic exercise promotes the circulation of oxygen through the blood. Examples of aerobic exercise include running, swimming…
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Show more- Parasitemia The presence of a parasite in the blood. For example, malarial parasitemia. Parasitemia is analogous to…
- Meningitis, neoplastic A condition due to cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the meninges, the tissue…
- Otalgia Ear pain; earache. Otalgia can originate within the ear, the ear canal, or the external ear. From otos, the…
- Biofilm An aggregate of microbes with a distinct architecture. A biofilm is like a tiny city in which microbial…
- Stem cell harvest, peripheral blood A technique for obtaining stem cells from the patient's blood for use in bone marrow transplantation. They…
- Cloning, cell The process of producing a group of cells (clones), all genetically identical, from a single ancestor.
- Symptomatic 1 With symptoms, as a symptomatic infection. 2 Characteristic, as behavior symptomatic of Huntington disease…
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome See: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dermatosparaxis type.
- Turbinate A bone shaped like a top. The turbinate is a bone in the nose; it is an extension of the ethmoid bone, is…
- Environmental tobacco smoke Abbreviated ETS. Secondhand smoke. See: ETS.
- Reflux surgery (fundoplication) A surgical technique that strengthens the barrier to acid reflux when the lower esophageal sphincter does not…
- Toxic goiter, diffuse Graves disease, the most common cause of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland), with…