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Also known as cerebrospinal fluid. Clear colorless liquid secreted by the choroid plexus of the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles, and contained within the ventricular system of the brain and spinal cord and within the subarachnoid space. See cerebrospinal...
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Somatotropin release inhibiting factor (same as GHRIH). Often referred to as somatostatin. A number of drugs to treat GH excess act like this native hypothalamic hormone.
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A stem. Usually refers to the pituitary stalk that connects the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus. A stem. Usually refers to the pituitary stalk that connects the pituitary gland to the hypothalamus.
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Device used to maintain a bodily orifice or cavity during skin grafting, or to immobilize a skin graft after placement. Slender thread, rod, or catheter, lying within the space in the interior of a tubular structure, such as an artery or the intestine. Used to provide...
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Precise positioning in three dimensional space. Refers to surgery or radiation therapy directed by various scanning devices.
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A radiation therapy technique that uses a large number of narrow, precisely aimed, highly focused beams of ionizing radiation. The stereotactic radiosurgery beams are aimed from many directions circling the head, and meet at a specific point. Stereotactic radiosurgery...
