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Hounsfield
1. Godfrey Hounsfield, a key contributor to the creation of the CAT scanner.2. The unit measuring the brightness of images that appear on a CAT scanner
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- Conjoined twins See: Conjoined twin
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- Taenia solium The pork tapeworm. Contracted from eating undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of…
- Tap, joint (aspiration) A procedure whereby a sterile needle and syringe are used to drain joint fluid from the joint. This is…
- Twin, vanishing See: Vanishing twin
- Abdominal hysterectomy Surgical removal of the uterus (a hysterectomy) done through an incision made in the abdominal wall. As…
- Isoform A protein that has the same function as another protein but which is encoded by a different gene and may have…