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Acapnia
Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. The opposite of hypercapnia. The origin of the word 'acapnia' is curious. It comes from the Greek 'a-' meaning 'without' + 'kapnos' meaning 'smoke' so acapnia literally means…
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- Myocardial infarction, acute See: Acute myocardial infarction
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- SPECT scan Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which a gamma camera rotates…
- Elevated hemidiaphragm Elevation of half of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen and that…
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- IL-2 Interleukin-2