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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL)
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) A method of breaking up bile stones and gallstones. Uses a specialized tool and shock waves.
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Bile
Fluid made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Bile helps break down fats and gets rid of wastes in the body.
Gallstones
Presence or formation of gallstones.
Shock
Impaired body function due to blood loss or a disturbance in the circulatory system.
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Extracellular
Outside the cells.
Extracerebral
Located outside the cerebral hemispheres.
Extracolonic
Outside the colon. An hereditary colon cancer syndrome may also predispose to extracolonic malignancies.
Extracorporeal
Outside the body, in the anatomic sense. As in extracorporeal circulation, extracorporeal dialysis, and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
A technique for shattering stones such as kidney stones or gallstones with a shock wave produced outside the body.
Extracranial
Outside the cranium, the bony dome that houses and protects the brain. As opposed to intracranial, inside the cranium.
Extracranial hematoma
A hematoma (a collection of blood) outside the cranium (skull).
Extraction
Removal of a tooth
Extradural
External (outside) to the dura mater.
Extraembryonic tissues
Intrauterine tissues derived from the zygote that support the embryo(for example, the placenta, the umbilical cord, and membranes such as the amniotic sac).
Extrafallopian
A term meaning "outside the fallopian tube." There are two fallopian tubes in female mammals, including human females. These tubes are also called oviducts. They serve as passageways connecting the egg-producing ovaries to the uterus (womb) in the pelvis.
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Extraocular
Adjacent to but outside the eyeball.
Extrapyramidal side effects
Physical symptoms, including tremor, slurred speech, akathesia, dystonia, anxiety, distress, paranoia, and bradyphrenia, that are primarily associated with improper dosing of or unusual reactions to neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) medications.
Extrapyramidal system
System consisting of nerve cells, nerve tracts and pathways that connects the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, reticular formation, and spinal neurons that is concerned with the regulation of reflex movements such as balance and walking.
Extrastriate cortex
Region of primate cerebral cortex anterior to striate cortex.
Extrasystole
A premature contraction of the heart that is independent of the normal rhythm of the heart and that arises in response to an impulse in some part of the heart other than the normal impulse from the sinoatrial (SA) node. The extrasystole is followed by a pause, as the heart electrical system "resets" itself and the contraction following the pause is usually more forceful than normal. These more forceful contractions are frequently perceived as palpitations.
Extrauterine
Outside the uterus (the womb). As opposed to intrauterine: inside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies are intrauterine; extrauterine pregnancies can occur in the uterine tube or abdominal cavity and are distinctly abnormal.
Extrauterine pregnancy
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Extravasate
To seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more accurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capillaries to form droplets of lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
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A state in which attention and energies are largely directed outward from the self as opposed to inward toward the self, as in introversion.
Extremity
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Extremophile
An organism that lives under extreme conditions. An example of an extremophile is Methanococcus jannaschii, a microbe that lives near hydrothermal vents deep beneath the sea.
Extrinsic
1. Not an essential or inherent part of a something such as a structure. 2. Coming from the outside. Extrinsic forces can mold the head before birth.
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Egg
The mature female reproductive cell.
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Separation of an early-stage embryo into two or more embryos with identical genetic makeup, essentially creating identical twins or higher multiples (triplets, quadruplets, etc.).
Embryoid bodies (EBs)
Irregularly shaped clumps of cellular structures that arise when embryonic stem cells or embryonic germ cells are cultured. Embryoid bodies usually contain tissue from all three of the germ layers: endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. Embryoid bodies are not part of normal development and occur only in vitro.
Embryonic germ cells
Pluripotent stem cell lines that migrate, during early development, to the future gonads to form the progenitors of egg or sperm cells. The properties of EG cells are similar to those of embryonic stem cells, but may differ in the DNA methylation of some imprinted regions.
Embryonic stem cells
Primitive (undifferentiated ) cultured cells from the embryo that have the potential to become a wide variety of specialized cell types, (that is, are pluripotent). They are derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst. Embryonic stem cells are not embryos; by themselves, they cannot produce the necessary cell types, such as trophectoderm cells, in an organized fashion so as to give rise to a complete organism.
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