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Sacred Heart
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bleeding heart
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Heart Sutra
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heart attack
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pericardium
pericardium 1. The membrane surrounding the cavity around the heart. 2. The cavity around the heart.... Read more |
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Echocardiography
Echocardiography Definition Echocardiography is a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the heart muscle and the heart's valves. Purpose Echocardiography is used to diagnose certain cardiovascular diseases, and is one of the most widely used... Read more |
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Heart Murmur
Heart Murmur Is a Heart Murmur Always a Problem? What Does the Doctor Hear and Do? Resources A heart murmur is an extra sound heard during a heartbeat that is caused by turbulence in blood flow through the heart. Most heart murmurs are innocent,... Read more |
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Heart Transplantation
Heart transplantation Definition Heart transplantation, also called cardiac transplantation, is the replacement of a patient's diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart. Purpose Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or... Read more |
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Heart murmurs
Heart murmurs Definition A heart murmur is an abnormal swishing or whooshing sound made by blood moving through the heart, heart valves, or blood vessels near the heart during the heartbeat cycle. It is heard through a stethoscope by a physician. Description When the heart... Read more |
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Myocardial diseases
Cardiomyopathy Definition Cardiomyopathy is a chronic disease of the heart muscle (myocardium), in which the muscle is abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened. The weakened heart muscle loses the ability to pump blood effectively, resulting in irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias ) and... Read more |
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Jefferson Davis: Confederate President.(Book Review)
...Man and His Hour (1991), Felicity Allen's Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart (1999), and William J. Cooper, Jr.'s Jefferson Davis, American (2000). Of these, Davis's work... |
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Who was Jefferson Davis?(heritage matters: looking back)
...recorded in historian Felicity Allen's biography Jefferson Davis--Unconquerable Heart (1999). All historians agree that Mississippi's Jefferson Davis was one of the most learned men of his day... |
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Everyman thesp with intergalactic range: thesp's key early role fanned flames...
...New York, as Jack Jefferson--aka heavyweight...But Jones and Jefferson were something else...defeat the seemingly unconquerable black fighter...certainly at the heart of Southern racism...Broadway audience." Jefferson's life was ... |