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Surgical formation of a passage between a bile duct and the stomach.  

Surgical formation of a passage between a bile duct and the intestine.  

Respiratory symptoms such as substemal distress, paroxysmal cough, tachypnea, or asphyxia. These may occur in decompression illness, especially in cases of aeroembolism resulting from exposure to pressure lower than atmospheric.  

A white crystalline powder used to treat both malaria and amebic dysentery.  

An insecticide, better known as DDT, not used in the U.S. since the 1970s because of its toxic  effects on animals and the environment.  

A green-yellow pigment in the retina.  

The habit of inhaling chloroform for pleasure.  

A fluorinated hydrocarbon, formerly used in metered dose inhalers as a propellant gas, that is, a gas that delivers aerosolized medications to the bronchi and lungs. CFCs were removed from the market after they were found to accumulate in the ozone layer of the stratosphere and to have a destructive effect on the upper atmosphere.…

A salt of chlorous acid; used as a disinfectant and bleaching agent.  

Excess of chlorides in the urine.