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Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy: A procedure in which an electric current is passed through the brain to produce controlled convulsions (seizures) to treat patients with depression, particularly for those who cannot take or are not responding to…
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- Adventitious Coming from an external source or occurring in an unusual place or manner. Not inherent, inherited or innate…
- Radial keratotomy An eye surgery procedure designed to flatten the cornea, reducing its optical power, to correct…
- Kawasaki disease Kawasaki disease: A disease that has nothing to do with the motor bike of the same name but is a syndrome of…
- Calcinosis An abnormal deposit of calcium salts in body tissues, as is seen in some forms of disease
- Disease, Menetrier's See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Sciatic nerve The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…
- Leucemia A different spelling of leukemia, cancer of the blood cells. The growth and development of the blood cells…
- Thalassemia Not just one disease but rather a complex series of genetic (inherited) disorders all of which involve…
- Anton Chekhov See: Chekhov, Anton
- Islet cell cancer A rare but highly treatable type of pancreatic cancer that begins in the cells of the pancreas that produce…
- Alpha-linolenic acid An essential fatty acid found in flaxseed oil, canola oil and walnuts. Abbreviated ALA