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Exfoliation syndrome
See: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome
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Show more- Puncture, lumbar A lumbar puncture or 'LP' is a procedure whereby spinal fluid is removed from the spinal canal for the…
- Presbyopia Presbyopia: The loss of the eye's ability to change focus to see near objects. The reasons for this loss of…
- Prealbumin One of several plasma proteins such as transthyretin that migrate faster than albumin in an acidic starch gel
- SPECT scan Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which a gamma camera rotates…
- Rickettsiosis, vesicular See Rickettsialpox
- Chronic myeloid leukemia See: Chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Womyn Woman. A late 20th century feminist creation to avoid the suffix man
- Artic health Health in the vast geographic region widely surrounding the North Pole, an area that encompasses all or…
- Macewen sign A sign to detect hydrocephalus and brain abscess. Percussion (tapping) on the skull at a particular spot…
- D-IBS Diarrhea-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
- Insertable loop recorder See: Patient-activated cardiac event recorder
- Intersexual genitalia Genitalia that are neither typically female nor typically male. Known in clinical medicine as ambiguous…