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KSS
Kearns-Sayre syndrome
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- Therapy, respiratory Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Nucleocaspid The genome plus the protein coat of a viral. The genome is nucleic acid. The protein coat is the capsid. The…
- Invasive candidiasis A fungal infection that occurs when Candida (a yeast-like fungus) enters the bloodstream and then spreads…
- STL2 Stickler syndrome, type II. See: Stickler syndrome
- Catheter, indwelling bladder A flexible plastic tube (a catheter) inserted into the bladder that remains ('dwells') there to provide…
- Helix, alpha See: Alpha helix
- Microdeletion The loss of a tiny piece of a chromosome, a piece so small its absence is not apparent on ordinary…
- Test, Rorschach A psychological test involving inkblots. The inkblots are used to determine what a person perceives (reads…
- Preventive medicine Medicine designed to avert and avoid disease. Screening for hypertension and treating it before it causes…
- Oral cholecystogram Oral cholecystogram: Abbreviated OCG. An x-ray procedure for diagnosing gallstones. The patient takes…
- Absolute neutrophil count The real number of white blood cells (WBCs) that are neutrophils. The absolute neutrophil count is commonly…