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Venous line, central
A catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava (the large vein returning blood to the heart) or in the right atrium of the heart. Central venous lines have a number of different…
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- Immune system A complex system that is responsible for distinguishing us from everything foreign to us, and for protecting…
- Modelling, chromatin See: Chromatin remodeling
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and…
- Vaccination, pneumococcal pneumonia
- Aphagia Inability to eat. From the Greek prefix 'a-' meaning 'not' + 'phago' meaning 'to eat' + not to eat.
- Febrile seizure A convulsion that occurs in association with a rapid increase in body temperature. Febrile seizures are…
- Stem cell harvest, peripheral blood A technique for obtaining stem cells from the patient's blood for use in bone marrow transplantation. They…
- Cancer, leukemia Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Leukemias are grouped by how quickly the disease develops…
- Diabetes skin condition See: Diabetic skin disease
- Peripheral insulin resistance Failure of target tissues to increase glucose disposal in response to insulin. See also: Insulin resistance