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Pap test
A screening test for cervical cancer based on the examination under the microscope of cells collected from the cervix, smeared on a slide and specially stained to reveal premalignant (before cancer) and malignant (cancer) changes as well…
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- Reiki ('RAY-kee') A Japanese word representing Universal Life Energy. Reiki is based on the belief that when…
- Gaucher disease, type 1 Gaucher disease, type 1: The most common and best known form of Gaucher disease. It affects the spleen…
- Mortality rate A death rate. There are a number of different types of mortality rates as, for examples, the following: >…
- Stress testing, exercise cardiac The exercise cardiac stress testing (ECST) is the most widely used cardiac (heart) screening test. The…
- Episiotomy Episiotomy: A surgical procedure for widening the outlet of the birth canal to facilitate delivery of the…
- Eukaryotic Pertaining to eukaryotes
- Mucolipidosis I A type of mucolipidosis (see below) characterized by deficiency of the enzyme neuraminidase (sialidase)…
- Continuous passive motion machine A machine used to help rehabilitate a limb (an arm or leg). The continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is…
- Enoxaparin Enoxaparin: A low-molecular-weight version of heparin which acts like heparin as an anticoagulant…
- Nuclei The plural of nucleus
- Orphan disease A disease which has not been 'adopted' by the pharmaceutical industry because it provides little financial…