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Cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE)
Gas bubbles traveling and lodging (embolizing) in the arteries that supply the brain with blood (and oxygen). Gas emboli in the brain can lead to a stroke-like condition with disorientation, difficulty walking and talking, coma, and death…
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- Gibbon, John H., Jr. American cardiovascular surgeon (1903-1973) who performed the world's first successful open-heart operation…
- Neonatology The art and science of caring medically for the newborn.
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) A noninvasive imaging method that provides information about cellular activity (metabolic…
- Migraine, abdominal An attack of abdominal pain that may be preceded by a migraine aura and accompanied nausea, vomiting, and…
- Jacksonian epilepsy See: Epilepsy, Jacksonian
- Diffuse mastocytosis A form of mastocytosis in which the entire skin is thickened and leathery with generalized reddening and…
- Inner ear There are three sections of the ear. They are the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The inner…
- Fibrofolliculomas, trichodiscomas and acrochordons See: Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
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