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Central venous line
A catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava (the large vein returning blood to the heart) or in the right atrium of the heart. Central venous lines have a number of different…
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- G G stands for guanine, one member of the base pair G-C (guanine-cytosine) in the DNA. The other base pair in…
- Finger stick A procedure in which a finger is pricked with a lancet to obtain a small quantity of capillary blood for…
- Circinate balanitis A form of skin inflammation around the penis in males with Reiter's syndrome. The skin around the shaft and…
- Acid, amino One of the 20 building blocks of protein. The sequence of amino acids in a protein and, hence, the function…
- Midwife assistant A person who assists a midwife with prenatal care, childbirth education, delivery, and post-natal care. Also…
- Karyocyte Any cell that possesses a nucleus. A neuron (nerve cell) is a karyocyte; it has a nucleus. A mature…
- Adeno- Prefix referring to a gland, as in adenoma and adenopathy. From the Greek aden meaning originally 'an acorn'…
- Ileoscopy Use of a flexible instrument (a 'scope') to examine the ileum which is the lowest part of the small…
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