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Preoperative
Before surgery. As opposed to postoperative, after surgery
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- Genetics of Parkinson disease See: Forensic genetics.
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- Prognathism An overly prominent jaw.
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- Disease, His-Werner Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart) and the…
- Kinome A subset of the genome consisting of the protein kinase genes. The complete complement of over 500 protein…
- Chickenpox immunization Immunization designed to prevent or lessen the severity of the common disease known as chickenpox. The…
- Cognitive dysfunction, chemotherapy-related See: Chemobrain
- Pulmonary medicine The branch of medicine that deals with the causes, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases affecting…
- Antisocial personality See: Antisocial personality disorder
- Corneal dystrophy, map-dot-fingerprint type A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows geographic map-like lines…