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Adrenal Glands Endocrine glands located above each kidney. They secrete chemical hormones and adrenaline that affect the body's functioning.
Antibiotic destorys or inhibits the growth of microorganisms. Penicillin, the fist antibiotic, was cultured from molds and found to inhibit bacterial growth.
Antigen a substance, usually foreign to the body.
Antibodies protein substances made by white blood cells in respomse to presence of foreign antigens.
Immune response The reaction between an antigen and an antibody.
Rh condition A oerson who is Rh postive has a protein coating of antigen on his or her red blood cells-RBCs.
Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) Rh+ enter the bloodstream and attack and destory the embryo's Rh+ RBCs, In result the embryo attemps to compensate for this loss by making many new, but immature RBCs.
Bilirubin A chemical pigment.
Autoimmune The body makes antibodies against its own good cells and tussue causing inflammation and injury.
Congenital anomalies Infant is born with webed fingers or toes and heart defects.
Contralateral The side of the body often demonstrates a deficit.
Ipsillateral The same side.
Dialysis Complete separation.
Ectopic pregnancy The zygote-ealy satge embryo, delops outside the uterus-most often in a fallopian tube.
Ovarain The zygote delops inside the ovary.
Peritoneal The zygote delops outside the uterus or the abdominal cavity.
Parathyroid glands Four glands are located on the dorsal side of the thyroid gland. The produce hormone and function entirely separately from the thyroid gland.
Parathyroid hormone Increases blood calcium and maintains it at a normal level.
Prolapses A organ or tissue slides forwardor downward.
Uterus Fist-degree Prolapse The uterus descends into the vaginal canal.
Uterus Second-degreee Prolapse The body of the uterus is still within the vagina, gut the cervix protudes from the vaginal orifice or opening.
Uterus Third-degree Prolapse The ehntire uterus projects permanently outside the orifice.
Recpmbinant DNA technology the process of taking a gene from one organism and inserting or recombining it into the DNA of another organism.
Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR a method od producing multiple copies of a single gene.
Sydrome A grpup of signs or symptomes that appear together and present a clinical picture of a disease or inherited abnormality.
Reye Syndrome Characterized by vomiting, swealling of the brain, increased intracranial pressure, hypoglycemia, and dysfuntion of the liver.
Fetal Alcohol Sydrome Affects infants whose mothers consumed excessive amount of alcohol during pregnancy. Its charactied by prenatal and postntal growth deficiency, cranifacial anomalies, and limp and heart defects.
Marfan Sydrome A inheried connective tissue disorder marked by a tall, thin body type with long "spidery" fingers and tows, elongated head; heart; blood vessels, and opthalmic abnormalities. Prsident Abraham Lincoln had this.
Symbiosis Two organisms living together in close association, either for mutual benefit or not.
Parasitism Another example of symbiosis.
Symphysis a joint which the boney surfaces are firmly united by a layer of fibrocartilage.
Pubic Symphysis The area in which the pubic bones of the pelvis have grown together.
Transurethral Resction of the prostate gland TURP, a portiion of the postate gland is removed with an instrument passed through the urethra.
Ultrasonography A dignostic techinique using ultrasound wave to produce an image or photograph of an organ or tissue.
Echocardiograms a ultrasound images of the heart.
Sonogram A getal ultrasound image.
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