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Angiography
A procedure performed to view blood vessels after injecting them with a radioopaque dye that outlines them on x-ray. This technique can be usefully used to look at arteries in many areas of the body, including the brain, neck (carotids)…
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- Burn, first degree A superficial burn with similar characteristics to a typical sun burn. The skin is red in color and sensation…
- DNA virus A virus in which the genetic material is DNA rather than RNA. The DNA may be either double- or…
- Smell, inability to No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to…
- Mansfield, Peter British scientist (1933-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American…
- Barotrauma Trauma caused by rapid or extreme changes in air pressure, especially affecting enclosed cavities within the…
- Leukemia, acute lymphocytic Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). A quickly…
- Hemidiaphragm Half of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen and that serves as the…
- Phenocopy 1. An environmental condition that imitates (copies) one produced by a gene. 2.The person who has an…
- Syndrome, cauda equina See: Cauda equina syndrome
- Intraepithelial Within the layer of cells that forms the surface or lining of an organ
- AIDS-related complex A term used to describe people with HIV infection who have only mild symptoms of illness such as swollen…