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Show more- Bariatric Pertaining to bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with weight loss
- Calcium deficiency A low level of calcium in the blood (hypocalcemia) which can make the nervous system highly irritable causing…
- Agonist, LHRH A compound that is similar to LHRH (luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone) in structure and is able to it…
- Normoxia Normal levels of oxygen. From norm- (normal) + -ox- (oxygen) + -ia = a normal oxygen state.
- Gorham disease Also called disappearing bone disease. Extensive loss of calcium from a single bone so that it cannot be seen…
- Erythema A redness of the skin resulting from inflammation, for example, as caused by sunburn
- Horripilation Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of…
- Glutathione S-transferase omega-1 An enzyme that remarkably influences the age of onset of symptoms of two common degenerative brain disorders…
- Vestibule In medicine and dentistry, a vestibule is a space or cavity at the entrance to a canal, channel, tube…
- Cyclooxygenase-1 inhibitor See: Cox-1 inhibitor
- Death rate The number of deaths in the population divided by the average population (or the population at midyear) is…
- Conformal radiation therapy A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…