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Hypothalamic hamartoma
A benign tumor of the hypothalamus, the area of the brain that controls body temperature, hunger, and thirst. (In technical terms, the hypothalamus lies beneath a structure known as the thalamus and forms the floor of the third ventricle…
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- CLL Chronic lymphocytic leukemia. See: Leukemia, chronic lymphocytic
- Fracture, comminuted A fracture in which bone is broken, splintered or crushed into a number of pieces. NTER> A fracture is a…
- Vertical Passage of a disease-causing agent (a pathogen) vertically from mother directly to baby during the perinatal…
- Legal medicine The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal…
- Stem cell harvest, peripheral blood A technique for obtaining stem cells from the patient's blood for use in bone marrow transplantation. They…
- RUQ Abbreviation for the right upper quadrant (quarter). The RUQ of the abdomen contains the liver and the…
- Phlebitis Inflammation of a vein. With phlebitis, there is infiltration of the walls of the vein and, usually, the…
- Cancer cluster A greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area over…
- RF Rheumatoid factor. Rheumatoid factor is an antibody that is measurable in the blood. It is commonly used as a…
- Breast cancer susceptibility genes Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes make one more susceptible to…
- Venereal disease A disease that is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact, caused by microorganisms that survive on the…