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Diagnostic mammogram
An X-ray of the breast done to evaluate: > >Abnormalities seen or suspected on a prior screening mammogram; >Subjective or objectives abnormalities in the breast such as a lump, pain, thickening, nipple discharge or a inexplicable change…
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Show more- Neurodermatitis Scaly patches of skin on the head, lower legs, wrists, or forearms caused by a localized itch such as from an…
- Hormone, mineralocorticoid A group of hormones, the most important being aldosterone, that regulate the balance of water and…
- Cecal Pertaining to the cecum (also spelled caecum), the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the lower…
- Jennerian method The production of immunity to a disease by inoculation of an attenuated form of the virus causing the…
- Childhood translocation 11 leukemia A new type of childhood leukemia in which a piece of chromosome 11 has been translocated (broken off and…
- Iliac horns Symmetrical bilateral central posterior iliac processes. In other words, horn-like malformations of the crest…
- Contig map A map depicting the relative order of a linked library of small overlapping clones representing a complete…
- TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura) A life-threatening disease involving embolism and thrombosis (plugging) of the small blood vessels in the…
- Neural Having to do with nerve cells
- Flu, Spanish See: Spanish flu
- Pubarche Just as menarche means the time when menstruation begins, pubarche indicates when pubic hair begins.
- Swallowing tube Descriptive term for the esophagus. See: Esophagus.