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Liver transplant
Liver transplant: Surgery to remove a diseased liver and replace it with a healthy liver (or part of one) from a donor. The most common reasons for liver transplantation in children is biliary atresia (a disease in which the ducts that…
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Show more- Omentectomy Surgery to remove part or all of the omentum, a fold of the peritoneum (the thin tissue lining the abdomen)…
- Fat, trans An unhealthy substance, also known as trans fatty acid, made through the chemical process of hydrogenation of…
- DV Blood clotting in the veins of the inner thigh or leg. In air travel, DVT is the "economy-class syndrome."…
- Olecranon Of or pertaining to the bony tip of the elbow. The olecranon is, in fact, the near end of the ulna, the bone…
- Skin graft, mesh A graft technique in which multiple pieces of skin are carefully arranged to cover an area. This technique is…
- Carb Slang for carbohydrate. Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of…
- Tourette syndrome Tourette syndrome: A tic disorder characterized by the presence of chronic vocal and motor tics, probably…
- Carbo-loading An eating routine used by some athletes that involves downing large amounts of carbohydrates several days…
- Pseudomonas pseudomallei A bacteria that causes an infectious illness called melioidosis or Whitmore's disease that is most frequent…
- Non-inferiority clinical trial A clinical trial that shows that a new treatment is equivalent to standard treatment. Also called a…
- Gas chromatography (GC) A type of automated chromatography (a technique used to separate mixtures of substances) in which the mixture…
- Additive genetic effects A mechanism of quantitative inheritance such that the combined effects of genetic alleles at two or more gene…