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Transplant, hand and forearm
Transplantation of the hand and the forearm from one person (a deceased donor) to another (the recipient). In the first hand transplant, performed in Ecuador in 1964, the donor hand was rejected after two weeks. The first successful hand…
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Show more- VCJD Stands for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as…
- Abatement A diminution, decrease or easing. In medicine there may be abatement of pain or any other symptom or sign. In…
- Enzyme, Warburg's yellow A key respiratory enzyme discovered by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in…
- Loiasis The disease caused by the eye worm known as loa loa, a parasite that lives in humans and other primates…
- Aldosterone A hormone made by the outer portion (cortex) of the adrenal gland that regulates the balance of salt and…
- Chromosome band One of the transverse bands produced on chromosomes by differential staining techniques. Depending on the…
- White-footed mouse A rodent capable of carrying the types of hantavirus that cause HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) in the…
- Alagille syndrome Also known as arteriohepatic dysplasia, this is a genetic disorder characterized by jaundice in the newborn…
- Care, critical See: Critical care
- ANC The absolute neutrophil count, the number of white blood cells (WBCs) that are neutrophils. The ANC is not…
- Avian tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, avian
- Oropharynx The area of the throat that is at the back of the mouth. The oropharynx is in contrast to the nasopharynx…