Category: P

The prevention of disease by administering antibodies in the form of a gamma globulin infusion or injection. Preparations enriched with specific antibodies can be used to prevent hepatitis B (HBIG), tetanus (Hyper-Tet), and chickenpox (VZIG).  

A means of assessing asthma in which a magnetic resonance image is made of the lungs after a patient inhales polarized helium gas. Asthmatics have ventilation defects in the lungs that are not present in non-asthmatics.  

The visual representation of the functions of an organ, i.e., of its blood flow, electrical activity, metabolism, oxygen uptake, or working receptors.  

In radioisotopic imaging, the use of differences in blood flow through organs as a means of diagnosing diseases such as strokes or malignancies.  

A system based on prints of the palmar surface of the hand and the plantar surface of the foot.  

Removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.  

A small structure anterior to the pharyngeal bursa. It is derived from the lower portion of Rathke’s pouch and occasionally gives rise to a cyst or tumor.  

The most common cause of recurring low blood glucose levels in newborns. PHHI is typically caused either by diffuse overgrowth of insulin-secreting cells (beta cells) throughout the pancreas or by a single beta cell adenoma. It is characterized by the abnormal secretion of insulin despite low blood glucose levels. Neonates affected by PHHI may suffer…

A disease, usually of childhood, characterized by paralysis, depending on degeneration of the muscles, which paradoxically become enlarged from a deposition of fat and connective tissue.  

Hypertrophy due to natural rather than pathological factors.