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Appendix perforation
Rupture of appendix
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- Circulatory Having to do with the circulation, the movement of fluid in a regular or circuitous course. Although the…
- Metabolic diseases, inherited Also called inborn errors of metabolism, these are heritable (genetic) disorders of biochemistry. Examples…
- Diarrhea, Brainerd A syndrome characterized by the acute onset of watery nonbloody diarrhea (3 or more loose stools per day)…
- Fluctuating rib One of the last two ribs. A rib is said to be 'fluctuating' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Incontinentia pigmenti In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Gas chromatography (GC) A type of automated chromatography (a technique used to separate mixtures of substances) in which the mixture…
- Model end stage liver disease See: MELD
- Long-chain-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase def. Se: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) has been found to be associated in some cases with an abnormality…
- Vasa previa A condition in which blood vessels within the placenta or the umbilical cord are trapped between the fetus…
- Spina bifida cystica A bony defect in the vertebral column that causes a cleft in that column. The meningeal membranes that cover…
- Epidural anesthetic An anesthetic agent injected into the epidural space, the space outside the dura -- the outermost, toughest…