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septostomy

Health care; Hospitals

Making a hole in the septum or the wall between the left and right chambers of the heart. It is usually done to allow more blood to circulate through the lungs. In some pediatric heart defects, ...

blood type

Health care; Hospitals

Blood cells contain inherited factors that are not the same in all people. Before a scheduled transfusion occurs, samples from the donor and recipient are tested (type A, B, AB, or 0, RH + or - and ...

neutropenia

Health care; Hospitals

meaning not enough neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that kills and digests microorganisms such as viruses. The neutrophil has a lifespan of about 3 days. Neutropenia may be seen with viral ...

blue blood (venous blood)

Health care; Hospitals

Blood that is returning in the veins of the body to the heart. Blood is then pumped to the lungs to pick up oxygen (becoming red blood).

obtunded

Health care; Hospitals

Mentally dulled. Head trauma may obtund a person.

blunt abdominal injury

Health care; Hospitals

To be struck in the abdomen by something that does not penetrate the skin.

pyloric stenosis

Health care; Hospitals

Narrowing (stenosis) of the outlet of the stomach so that food cannot pass easily from the stomach into the duodenum (intestine), resulting in feeding problems and projectile vomiting. The ...

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