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Acid Loading Test
Updated: Dec 15, 2009 - 13:00An acid loading test is a blood and urine test that looks to see if your kidneys are doing their job well. One of the jobs that your kidneys do is to make sure your blood has a normal pH - this means that your blood is not too acidic or too alkaline (alkaline is opposite of acidic). The first ...
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Adenoidectomy
Updated: Dec 14, 2009 - 15:13An adenoidectomy is when a doctor removes your adenoids. Adenoids are small lumps of tissue in the back of your throat on each side that help fight infection. As you get older your adenoids start to shrink and eventually disappear altogether, because they are not an essential part of your immun...
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Adrenalectomy
Updated: Oct 12, 2009 - 15:32Adrenalectomy is what it’s called when a doctor takes out one or both of your adrenal glands in an operation.
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Allergy test
Updated: Oct 26, 2009 - 13:28Your doctor may do an allergy test to find out if you are allergic to a type of food, or to other things like pets, dust mites and pollen. There are a few different allergy tests that you could have. Skin tests, like the skin prick test, are the ones that are most often done. You could also h...
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Angiography
Updated: Oct 30, 2009 - 09:51Angiography is when a doctor injecs some dye into your blood vessels so that he or she can see them in an x-ray photo. There are different types of angiography for different parts of your body, for example, renal angiography looks at your kidneys and coronary angiography looks at your heart.
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