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Catheter, Foley
A flexible plastic tube (a catheter) inserted into the bladder to provide continuous urinary drainage. The 'Foley' has a balloon on the bladder end. After the catheter is inserted in the bladder, the balloon is inflated (with air or fluid)…
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Show more- Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: Abbreviated ANLL. More commonly called acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A quickly…
- Ulcerative gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Liver transplant Liver transplant: Surgery to remove a diseased liver and replace it with a healthy liver (or part of one)…
- Spiral fracture A fracture, sometimes called a torsion fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart. NTER>
- Diabetes, insulin-dependent Also called type 1 diabetes. See Diabetes, type 1
- Ehrlichiosis An acute (abrupt onset) disease, first reported in humans in 1986, due to infection by the rickettsial agent…
- Respiratory papillomatosis, recurrent Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis involves the growth of numerous warty growths in the larynx on the vocal…
- Stickler syndrome, type III See: Stickler syndrome
- CK The military designation for cyanogen chloride. See: Cyanide
- Inguinal canal A passage in the lower anterior abdominal wall which in the male allows passage of the spermatic cord and in…
- Supernumerary nipple An extra nipple. Supernumerary nipples are usually smaller than normal and vestigial (nonfunctional, without…
- CEPH The Centre d'Etudes du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), an internationally renowned research laboratory created…