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Prenatal surgery
The surgical treatment of the fetus before birth. Also called antenatal surgery or, most often, fetal surgery. Fetal surgery is done when the fetus is not expected to live long enough to make it through to delivery or to live long after…
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- Gastroenteritis Gastroenteritis: Inflammation of the stomach and the intestines. Can cause nausea and vomiting and/or…
- Dystonia, focal, due to blepharospasm See: Focal dystonia due to blepharospasm
- Lanugo Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair…
- Iressa Brand name for gefitinib, a drug that attaches to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on the surfaces…
- Syndrome, von Hippel-Lindau See Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
- Son 1. Principally, a male offspring. 2. Also a male adopted child. 3. A term of address for a male. From the Old…
- Refractory Not yielding (at least not yielding readily) to treatment
- Papillary tumor A tumor shaped like a small mushroom with its stem attached to the inner lining of the bladder
- DNA, coding A sequence of DNA that codes for protein. Coding DNA sequences are separated by long regions of DNA called…
- Stirrup The stapes, one of the three bones in the middle ear. See: Stapes
- Pleiotropic 1. Producing many effects. 2. Multiple effects from a single gene. For example, the Marfan gene is…