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Enterostomal therapist
A health care specialist trained to help patients care for and adjust to their colostomy.
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- Vertebra, second cervical The second cervical vertebra is called the axis. It is so-named because the uppermost cervical vertebra…
- Curie (Ci) A unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which the number of…
- Bruton agammaglobulinemia tyrosine kinase A genetic type of immunodeficiency characterized by failure to produce mature B lymphocytes and gamma…
- Diabetes, juvenile-onset See Diabetes, type 1
- Legg-Perthes disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Lemierre syndrome A potentially lethal form of sore throat caused by the bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum, a common…
- Molecules, recombinant DNA A combination of DNA molecules of different origin that are joined using recombinant DNA technology
- Lithotomy position Position in which the patient is on their back with the hips and knees flexed and the thighs apart. The…
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