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Papillomatosis, laryngeal
Laryngeal papillomatosis is the growth of numerous warty growths on the vocal cords. The disease is most common in young children. Laryngeal papillomatosis can be due to the baby contracting human papilloma virus (HPV) during birth through…
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Show more- Chart, Snellen's The familiar eye chart used to measure how well you see at various distances. Snellen's chart is imprinted…
- Contraceptive sponge, vaginal A contraceptive device that is donut-shaped, made of plastic, contains a spermicide (nonoxynol-9) and is…
- NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. An imaging technique that does not use radiation.
- Cachexia Physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass caused by disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS…
- Syndrome, Gulf War See: Gulf War syndrome
- RAD51 An enzyme that coordinates recombination and that is important to the process of error-free DNA repair by…
- Lethal gene, zygotic A gene that is lethal (fatal) for the zygote, the cell formed by the union of a sperm (male sex cell) and an…
- Biological chemistry Another name for biochemistry -- the study of the chemistry of living cells, tissues, organs and organisms…
- Weaver-Smith syndrome. See: Weaver syndrome
- Hepatic artery See: Liver biopsy.
- Cystatin 3 See: Cystatin C
- Machine, heart-lung A machine that does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (oxygenate the blood). Used, for…