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Stress test, pharmacologic
There are a diversity of pharmacologic stress tests. Here this refers specifically to a pharmacologic cardiac stress test in which certain medications are administered that stimulate the heart to mimic the physiologic effects of exercise…
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- Hemophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of blood. Sufferers of this very common phobia dread the sight of their own…
- Anat. The abbreviation for anatomy, the study of form. Gross anatomy involves structures that can be seen with the…
- Hunter syndrome A genetic metabolic disorder that arises from deficiency of the enzyme iduronate sulfatase, resulting in…
- Poisoning Taking a substance that is injurious to health or can cause death. Poisoning is still a major hazard to…
- Skull, hair-on-end Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Lobectomy An operation done to remove a lobe of an organ such as the lobe of a lung or a lobe of the thyroid gland. The…
- Iliac horns Symmetrical bilateral central posterior iliac processes. In other words, horn-like malformations of the crest…
- Retic count Short for reticulocyte count
- Foramen magnum The large hole at the base of the skull which allows passage of the spinal cord.
- Fainting (syncope) Fainting (syncope): Partial or complete loss of consciousness with interruption of awareness of oneself and…
- Polycystic kidney disease, adult See: Polycystic kidney disease, autosomal dominant