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Show more- Chemo Slang for chemotherapy -- drug therapy for cancer. Most anticancer drugs are given IV (into a vein) or IM…
- NINDS Stands for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the National Institutes of…
- Enuresis Involuntary urination, which may be caused by a variety of factors. These include disorders of the kidneys…
- Papilla of Vater See: Ampulla of Vater
- Disease, delta-storage pool See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Conditioning, Pavlovian Named after the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1848-1936) who conditioned dogs to respond in…
- HCFA The Health Care Finance Administration, the part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
- Valve, Spitz-Holter See Spitz-Holter valve
- Hereditary arthroophthalmopathy See: Stickler syndrome
- Macrobiota The living organisms (or flora and fauna) of a region that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye…
- Locoregional Limited to a local region. See also: Locoregional anesthesia; Locoregional metastasis
- Genome, plague See: Plague bacterium genome