iris
The iris is the pigmented ring around the pupil that adjusts pupil size to regulate how much light enters the eye.
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It is the eye of keyhole surgery: instruments enter through separate ports, and the whole team operates from one magnified screen image.
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Trading one long wound for several small ones changes the recovery far more than it changes the operation performed inside.
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Which type is raised matters more than the total, since neutrophils, lymphocytes and eosinophils each point somewhere different.
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A condition in which there is a slow breakdown of cells in the center of the retina (the light-sensitive layers of nerve tissue at the back of the eye).
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Mantle cell lymphoma is a B-cell lymphoma named for the lymph node zone it arises from, generally considered an aggressive subtype.
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A lymph node located above the collar bone and between the center of the body and a line drawn through the nipple to the shoulder.
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A membrane is a thin sheet of tissue that lines, covers, separates, or encloses a body structure or cavity.
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The clinician whose training centers on birth as a normal event, with the judgment to recognize when it has stopped being one.
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Unlike vitamins, these are chemical elements: they cannot be built or destroyed by cooking, only taken in and lost again.
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The nasopharynx is the uppermost part of the throat, connecting the nasal cavity to the rest of the airway and to each middle ear.
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Nausea is an uncomfortable stomach sensation often preceding vomiting, with causes ranging from motion and illness to medication and pregnancy.
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A federal agency that uses science to explore complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices, trains CAM researchers, and provides authoritative information about CAM to professionals and…
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A nose spray that contains a small dose of nicotine, which enters the blood by being absorbed through the lining of the nose.
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The raised opening at the center of the breast where the milk ducts reach the surface, ringed by darker skin.
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Olfaction is the sensory process that detects airborne chemical molecules in the nose and interprets them as distinct smells.
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Oral describes anything relating to the mouth, including its anatomy, medications taken by swallowing, and examinations of the mouth and throat.
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Papilledema is swelling of the optic disc caused by raised pressure inside the skull, visible on examination of the eye.
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Two trainings in one person, which separates the role from a hospital chaplain and from a therapist who leaves belief aside.
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An orally available pyridopyrimidine-derived cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity.
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