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PELD
Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease. A disease severity scoring system for children under 18 years of age, designed to improve the organ allocation in transplantation based on the severity of liver disease rather than time on the waiting…
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Show more- Papuliferous 1. Having papules. 2. Having pimples. Simply pimply. From papule, pimple + the Latin fero, to bear. Also…
- Lung cancer, familial Lung cancer that recurs in families. Lung cancer can occur sporadically in people with no known family…
- Warfarin Warfarin: An anticoagulant drug (brand names: Coumarin, Panwarfin, Sofarin) taken to prevent the blood from…
- Microarray A tool used to sift through and analyze the information contained within a genome. A microarray consists of…
- LCL (lateral collateral ligament) of the knee The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Dialysis, peritoneal Dialysis, peritoneal: Technique that uses the patient's own body tissues inside of the belly (abdominal…
- Gesell Developmental Schedules A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell…
- RTS See Rett syndrome.
- Menetrier's disease See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Chemical reaction A process in which one substance is transformed into another. Thousands of different types of chemical…
- Medical directives, advance Advance directives preserve the person's right to accept or reject a course of medical treatment even after…
- Caspase 3 An enzyme that plays a key role in programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Caspase 3 has been called the…