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Flow karyotyping
Use of flow cytometry to analyze and/or separate chromosomes on the basis of their DNA content
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- Extrauterine Outside the uterus (the womb). As opposed to intrauterine: inside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies…
- Viscera The internal organs of the body, specifically those within the chest (as the heart or lungs) or abdomen (as…
- Cervix The cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus (womb). The uterus, a hollow, pear-shaped organ, is…
- Syndrome, Coffin-Lowry An X-linked form of mental retardation in which the affected males have short stature and characteristic…
- Skin graft, mesh A graft technique in which multiple pieces of skin are carefully arranged to cover an area. This technique is…
- Red eye Also called conjunctivitis. Redness or irritation of the conjunctivae, the membranes on the inner part of the…
- Symphysiotomy A surgical procedure to effect an immediate dramatic increase in the size of the pelvic outlet to permit…
- Lindau-von Hippel syndrome See Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
- Dizziness, pre-syncopal Dizziness before fainting. Some symptoms of dizziness such as wooziness, feeling about to black out, and…
- Analytic specificity How well an assay detects only a specific substance and does not detect closely related substances
- Vein, great saphenous The larger of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…