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Buffalo chest
A single chest cavity with no anatomic separation of the two hemithoraxes due, for example, to tension pneumothorax (air under pressure collapsing a lung). It is called buffalo chest because this anatomical peculiarity of the North…
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Show more- Incompatibility, Rh The state of mother and fetus having different Rh blood group types so that their Rh types are…
- Off-pump surgery A technique for heart surgery designed to avoid use of the heart-lung machine. The technique permits surgery…
- Arthritis, quackery Like many people with chronic ailments, sufferers from arthritis are potentially vulnerable to proponents of…
- Malaise A vague feeling of discomfort, one that cannot be pinned down but is often sensed as 'just not right.'…
- Pulmonary stenosis The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
- Iatrapistic A lack of faith in doctors. Entirely from the Greek: 'iatr-' indicating a relationship to a physician or…
- Mammaplasty, reduction See: Breast reduction
- Substance, pressor See: Pressor substance
- Kidney stones, cystine Cystine kidney stones are due to cystinuria, an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino…
- XP Xeroderma pigmentosum
- Laryngoscopy Examination of the larynx with a mirror (indirect laryngoscopy) or with a laryngoscope (direct laryngoscopy)…
- DEB (dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa) See: Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa