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Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Nat'l Institute
F Arthritis and (NIAMS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. As its somewhat cumbersome name indicates, NIAMS's mission is a broad and important one, namely to 'conduct and support a broad spectrum of research on normal…
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Show more- Pacemaker, internal A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm. An internal…
- Therapy, fever Fever: Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by…
- IGT The Indian Health Service, a part of the US Public Health Service within the US Department of Health and…
- Vasovagal attack See: Vasovagal reaction
- Plyometrics Any exercise in which muscles are repeatedly and rapidly stretched ('loaded') and then contracted (as in…
- Cushing syndrome Cushing syndrome: The constellation of symptoms and signs caused by an excess of cortisol hormone. Cushing…
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography Abbreviated ERCP. A procedure done to diagnose and treat problems in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and…
- Genome, Bos taurus See: Bovine genome
- Achilles tendon A tough sinew that attaches the calf muscle to the back of the heel bone. The Achilles tendon is one of the…
- Superficial spreading melanoma See: Melanoma, superficial spreading
- Peroneal muscular atrophy See: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Nipple The pigmented projection on the surface of the breast. Ducts that conduct milk from the mammary glands to the…