| xeroradiography |
(noun) method of photoreproduction used in x-ray. A dry process involving plates covered with a powdered substance, such as selenium, electrically and evenly charged. This is held between the plates. The x-rays alter the charge or substance to varying degrees which produces the image
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| xerostomia |
(noun) dryness of the mouth caused by the arresting of normal salivary glands
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| xenograft |
A layer of pig skin placed over a burn wound after debridement to act as an artificial skin until an autograft can be placed.
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| xeroderma pigmentosum |
An inherited disorder that causes extreme sensitivity to sunlight and early onset of skin cancers, including basal and squamous cell and melanoma. Patients are also at risk for cancers of the brain, lung, stomach, tongue, and melanoma of the eye, and leukemia.
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| xerophthalmia |
literally dry eye, atrophic conjunctivitis form vitamin A deficiency
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