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Subclavian steal
An illness that stays below the surface of clinical detection. A subclinical disease has no recognizable clinical findings. It is distinct from a clinical disease, which has signs and symptoms that can be recognized. Many diseases…
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- UAA A triplet consisting of uracil, adenine, adenine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…
- Androgen suppression therapy See: Androgen suppression
- RT 1. Respiratory therapist.2. Radiation therapy.3. Reverse transcriptase
- Monilia A yeast-like fungus now called Candida.
- PNL (percutaneous nephrolithotripsy) A technique for removing large and/or dense stones and staghorn stones. PNL is done via a port created by…
- Olive oil diet See: Mediterranean diet
- Pneumomediastinum Free air in the mediastinum (space betweens the lungs) which may give rise to pneumothorax or…
- Rate, fetal mortality The ratio of fetal deaths divided by the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year…
- Lightening Not to be confused with a discharge of atmospheric electricity, lightening refers to the sensation that a…
- Extension The process of straitening or the state of being strait. Extension of the hip and knee joints is necessary to…
- Shingle In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease…