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Transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell
A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow transplantation. Stem cells are small, round cells with a squat nucleus and scant surrounding cytoplasm. Although unremarkable in appearance…
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- Glass eye 1. A globe of glass that looks like and is intended to replace the eyeball.2. By extension, a real eye that…
- Esotropia Cross-eyed or, in medical terms, convergent or internal strabismus
- Hepatitis B Hepatitis B: Inflammation of the liver due to the hepatitis B virus (HBV), once thought to be passed only…
- Marx, Gertie F. Distinguished German-born American physician known as the 'mother of obstetric anesthesia.' She almost…
- Adenomatous polyposis coli, autosomal recessive See: MYH
- Tympany A hollow drum-like sound produced when a gas-containing cavity is tapped sharply. Tympany is heard if the…
- Synovial sarcoma A malignant sarcoma of soft tissue that arises near but not in a joint, most often in an adolescent or young…
- AIH (artificial insemination by husband) A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Neuropathy, accessory See: Accessory neuropathy
- Heterochromatin, facultative Heterochromatin that need not always be heterochromatic but which has the faculty to return to the normal…
- Lunule 1. The crescent-shaped area at the base of a fingernail or toenail. 2. Any small crescent- or moon-shaped…