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Study, stomach emptying
Also called a gastric emptying study, this test evaluates the emptying of food from the stomach. For a gastric emptying study, a patient eats a meal in which the solid food, liquid food or both are mixed with a small amount of radioactive…
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- Genome, chicken See: Chicken genome
- Nexus A connection or link. A causal connection. A connected series. 'Nexus' comes from the Latin 'nectere' meaning…
- Mixed mania A state of mind characterized by symptoms of both mania and depression seen sometimes in bipolar disorders…
- Hepatic vein One of the veins which drains blood from the liver
- Tinea incognito Tinea corporis, a common fungal infection of the skin, better known as ringworm, whose appearance has been…
- Poikiloderma congenita Better known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
- Blepharophimosis Horizontal narrowing of the palpebral fissures (eye slits)
- Hallucinogen A drug that causes hallucinations (profound distortions in a person's perceptions of reality). Under the…
- Tongue, anterior See: Anterior tongue
- Fibulin 3 A protein that belongs to a family of extracellular proteins expressed in the basement membranes of blood…
- Pancreatic islet cell carcinoma See: Islet cell cancer