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Lead poisoning
Lead poisoning: An environmental hazard capable of causing brain damage. In the US lead poisoning is formally defined as having at least 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. (The average level of lead, for people ages 1 to 70, is…
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- Fetoscopy A technique for looking directly at the fetus within the uterus (using a fetoscope).
- Heart, artificial A manmade heart. An artificial heart was temporarily implanted in 1969 by Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas…
- Surgery, video-assisted Surgery that is aided by the use of a video camera that projects and enlarges the image on a television…
- HCFA The Health Care Finance Administration, the part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
- RWI Recreational water illness
- Saccular From the Latin 'sacculus' meaning a small pouch. As for example the alveolar saccules (little air pouches)…
- Radial >Pertaining to the radius, the smaller bone in the forearm. The radial artery is so named because of its…
- Nerve, third cranial The third cranial nerve is the oculomotor nerve. The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the…
- Pulmonary syndrome, Hantavirus Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Menetrier's disease See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Agonist maintenance treatment See: Methadone treatment program