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SGPT
Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase, an enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. SGPT is released into blood when the liver or heart are damaged. The blood SGPT levels are thus elevated with liver damage (for example, from…
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Show more- Spontaneous abortion A miscarriage, that is, any pregnancy that is not viable (the fetus cannot survive) or in which the fetus is…
- Vasoconstriction Narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contracting of the muscular wall of the vessels. The opposite…
- RA Rheumatoid arthritis
- Placebo response A positive medical response to taking a placebo, a sham medication as if it were an active medication. Up to…
- Rebound effect The characteristic of a drug to produce reverse effects when the effect of the drug has passed or the patient…
- Corpus The body of the uterus (womb)
- AAOS (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) The professional organization of American orthopaedists. Literally, the practice of child straightening…
- Fredrickson See: Fredrickson, Donald
- Imbricate Overlapping like shingles or tiles on a roof. The scales on a snake are imbricate. From the Latin imbricatus…
- Preexcitation In cardiology, the premature activation of part of the ventricle due to transmission of impulses along an…
- Encephalitis, flavivirus See: Flavivirus encephalitis
- Digit A finger or toe