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Emboli
Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli are a detached blood clot, a clump of bacteria, and foreign material such as air. Pulmonary emboli are blood clots that have been…
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- Random sample A group selected randomly, solely by chance
- Care, ambulatory See: Ambulatory care
- Bacteriology The science and study of bacteria and their relation to medicine and to other areas such as agriculture…
- Eruption, bather's An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Test, treadmill A test (sometimes called the exercise treadmill test or exercise test) in which a continuous…
- Cys-Cys Cystine
- Tonsillolith A tiny stone (calculus) in the tonsils. Also referred to as a tonsillith. These stones, called tonsilloliths…
- Retinitis pigmentosa Any one of a large group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of the photoreceptors (the rods and…
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- Progesterone receptor test A laboratory test to determine if breast cancer cells have progesterone receptors on their surface. If the…
- Second stage of labor The part of labor from the full dilatation of the cervix until the baby is completely out of the birth canal…