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Boari flap
in a ureterocystoneostomy, a flap of bladder wall that is fashioned into a tube and attached to a remnant ureter to replace a missing ureteral segment.
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axial pattern flap
a skin flap whose blood supply is derived from an artery contained in its long axis. Cf. random pattern f.
finasteride
an inhibitor of the enzyme 5a-reductase, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and as a hair growth stimulant in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia; administered orally.
spiral visual field
a visual field pattern, seen in functional visual loss, in which there is a continuous contraction of the visual field as it is plotted from meridian to meridian, so that the line connecting the limits of all of the meridians takes the form of a spiral.
juvenile hyaline fibromatosis
a rare disorder, of autosomal recessive inheritance, characterized by multiple painless cutaneous papules containing spindle-shaped cells in an amorphous, acidophilic ground substance, occurring on the head, back, and extremities; lesions recur after removal and may continue to appear into adulthood.
calcifying aponeurotic fibroma
a recurrent benign tumor seen mainly in persons under 20 years of age, most often on the hand, occurring as a firm, fixed nodule composed of fibroblastic tissue with finely stippled calcifications, not attached to the overlying skin and infiltrating into surrounding soft tissue. Called also aponeurotic fibroma and juvenile aponeurotic fibroma.
neutropenic fever of unknown origin
a fever of at least 38.3?C occurring on several occasions in a patient whose neutrophil level is lower than 500/mm3 or is expected to fall below that level within one or two days, and for which a cause cannot be determined after three days of investigation, including two days of incubation of cultures.
in vitro fertilization
removal of a secondary oocyte, fertilization of it in a culture medium in the laboratory, and placement of the dividing zygote into the uterus.