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Electrosurgery
Instead of using a scalpel, the surgeon utilizes a heat-generating electrical device to burn or vaporize tissue in order to remove it and minimize and halt bleeding
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- Synovial membrane A layer of connective tissue that lines the cavities of joints, tendon sheaths, and bursae and makes synovial…
- Congenital anemia 1. Anemia at birth. 2. Synonym for Rh incompatibility
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- Domain In molecular biology, a discrete portion of a protein with its own function. The combination of domains in a…
- Brachytherapy, coronary artery A slow heart rate, usually defined as less than 60 beats per minute. The word bradycardia is logically…
- Thalassiosira pseudonana An ocean diatom that is a major participant in the biological pumping of carbon to ocean depths and that has…
- Anoscopy Anoscopy is a procedure used to visualize the wall of the anus and lowest portion of the rectum. Anoscopy can…
- Heteroclite Deviating from the ordinary; irregular or abnormal; anomalous. As, for example, retroviruses represent a…
- Thrombolytic agent A drug that is able to dissolve a clot (thrombus) and reopen an artery or vein. Thrombolytic agents may be…