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Ligature
In surgery, a filament or thread used to tie something, such a blood vessel to prevent it from bleeding or the pedicle of a tumor to constrict it. Ligatures may be of silk, gut, wire, and other materials. From the Latin 'ligare' meaning to…
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- Absolute CD4 count The number of 'helper' CD4 T-lymphocytes in a cubic millimeter of blood. With HIV, the absolute CD4 count…
- Humoral Pertaining to elements in the blood or other body fluids. In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid)…
- Monkeypox Monkeypox: A rare zoonotic (animal-borne) viral disease similar to smallpox. The virus responsible for…
- Transmission, perinatal Transmission of a disease-causing agent (a pathogen) from mother to baby during the perinatal period, the…
- Hemidiaphragm, raised See: Elevated hemidiaphragm
- Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) An enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. SGPT is released into blood when the liver or…
- Urography A method for examining the structure and functionality of urinary system. A special dye is injected, and…
- Vesicointestinal See: Vesicoenteric
- Dyspeptic Pertaining to dyspepsia, a term that is probably more often encountered today in advertising than in…
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