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Keratosis, senile
Synonymous with actinic keratosis. See: Keratosis, actinic
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- Extravasate To exude from or pass through the walls of a vessel into the surrounding tissues. Blood, lymph, or urine can…
- Resorption The process of losing substance. Bone, when it is remodeled (reshaped), undergoes both new formation and…
- Palmoplantar hyperhidrosis Excessive sweating of the palms and soles. Palm and sole sweating tends to begin around age 13 on the average
- Melanoma, lentigo maligna One of the four clinical types of malignant melanoma and the slowest growing one. It typically begins as a…
- Tuberculosis vaccination A vaccination for tuberculosis (TB). The vaccine, known as BCG (bacille Calmette Guerin), is used in most…
- Antisense DNA DNA normally has two strands, i.e., the sense strand and the antisense strand. In double-stranded DNA, only…
- Progressive cardiomyopathic lentiginosis See: LEOPARD syndrome
- Dacryocyst The lacrimal sac; tear sac. The dilated (widened) upper end of the nasolacrimal duct, the passageway that…
- Chyme A pre-digested, acidified mass of food that passes from the stomach into the small intestine
- BAC Abbreviation for bacterial artificial chromosome. An artificially created chromosome in which medium-sized…