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Reservoir of infection
Any person, animal, plant, soil or substance in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies. The reservoir typically harbors the infectious agent without injury to itself and serves as a source from which other individuals can…
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Show more- Surgery, fetal The surgical treatment of the fetus before birth. Also called prenatal or antenatal surgery. Fetal surgery is…
- Pyelogram X-ray study of the kidney especially showing the pelvis (urine-collecting basin) of the kidney and the ureter.
- Vesicoenteric Pertaining to both the urinary bladder and intestine or to a communication between them, as in a…
- Hyperbaric Pertaining to gas pressures greater than 1 atmosphere* of pressure. Also pertaining to solutions that are…
- Vibrio cholerae One of the Vibrio bacteria, V. cholerae (as the name implies) is the agent of cholera, a devastating and…
- Round To go around and see a patient in a hospital or other in-patient setting
- Cataract, nuclear A cataract that occurs in the center (the nucleus) of the lens. See: Cataract
- Tamponade, cardiac A life-threatening situation in which there is such a large amount of fluid (usually blood) inside the…
- Reactant, acute phase See: Acute-phase protein
- NF2 (neurofibromatosis type 2) Neurofibromatosis type 2
- DNA repair The body has a series of special enzymes to repair mutations (changes) in the DNA and restore the DNA to its…
- Hydatid disease, alveolar A tumor that forms in the uterus as a mass of cysts resembling a bunch of grapes. Moles occur during the…