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Radionuclide stress test
A procedure that involves injecting a radioactive isotope, typically thallium or cardiolyte, into the patient's vein after which an image of the patient's heart becomes visible with a special camera. The radioactive isotopes are absorbed…
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- Brain malleability See Neuroplasticity
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- Y chromosome infertility Male infertility with oligozoospermia (a subnormal number of sperm) or azoospermia (the absence of sperm)…
- Papilla, anal See: Anal papilla
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…
- Amebiasis Infection of the intestines with amebae, especially with the ameba Entamoeba histolytica, characterized by…
- Deficiency, LCHAD Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) has been found to be associated in some cases with an abnormality of…
- Angina, exudative Angina, exudative: This has nothing whatsoever to do with the usual type of angina (angina pectoris) which is…
- Exercise, isometric Exercise involving muscular contractions without movement of the involved parts of the body. Isometric…
- Inhibitor, ACE See: ACE inhibitor
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis.