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Laser surgery
A type of surgery that uses the cutting power of a laser beam to make bloodless cuts in tissue or remove a surface lesion such as a skin tumor. There are a number of different types of lasers that differ in emitted light wavelengths and…
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- Polypectomy Removal of a polyp by surgery. In the case of polyps in the colon, polypectomy may be done by open abdominal…
- Asthma, miner's See: Black lung disease
- Resistance, pulmonary The opposition of the respiratory tree to air flow
- Carcinoma in situ Cancer that involves only the place in which it began and that has not spread. Carcinoma in situ is an…
- Bone, wing Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or blade bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Xanthoma, disseminatum A type of xanthoma characterized by orange-to-brown nodules on the skin or mucus membranes
- Labia majora The larger (major) outside pair of labia (lips) of the vulva (the female external genitalia).
- Secondary cataract See: Cataract, secondary
- Dummy In science experiments, a substance without any active ingredient, a placebo. In the UK, a pacifier: an…
- Abscess, breast See: Breast abscess. see also: Breast infection; Mastitis
- Expressivity The consistency of a genetic disease. For example, Marfan disease shows variable expressivity. Some persons…