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  2. Syndesmosis procedure - Wikipedia

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    Syndesmosis procedure is one of the more than twenty bunion surgeries currently being performed. While the majority of bunion surgeries involve the breaking and shifting of bones ( osteotomy procedures), [1] syndesmosis procedure [2] is one of few surgical techniques that use a soft-tissue or non-osteotomy (non-bone-breaking) approach to afford ...

  3. Prostatic artery embolization - Wikipedia

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    Prostatic artery embolization (PAE, or prostate artery embolisation) is a non-surgical technique for treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).. The procedure involves blocking the blood flow of small branches of the prostatic arteries using microparticles injected via a small catheter, to decrease the size of the prostate gland to reduce lower urinary tract symptoms.

  4. Side effects of bicalutamide - Wikipedia

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    General side effects of bicalutamide that may occur in either sex include diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, nausea, dry skin, itching, and rash . In men with prostate cancer, bicalutamide monotherapy has been found to increase the likelihood of death due to causes other than prostate cancer.

  5. List of side effects of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole - Wikipedia

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    Methaemoglobinaemia. Erythema multiforme. Low blood sugar. Hepatitis (liver swelling) Crystalluria (crystals in the urine) Urinary obstruction causing difficulty passing urine. Lowered mental acuity. Depression. Tremor.

  6. PRISM (reactor) - Wikipedia

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    The S-PRISM represents GEH's Generation IV reactor solution to closing the nuclear fuel cycle and is also part of its Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) proposition [1] to U.S. Congress to deal with nuclear waste. [2] S-PRISM is a commercial implementation of the Integral Fast Reactor developed by Argonne National Laboratory between 1984 and 1994.

  7. Dystonia - Wikipedia

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    anticholinergics, dopamine agonists. Dystonia is a neurological hyperkinetic movement disorder in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, resulting in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures. [3] The movements may resemble a tremor. Dystonia is often intensified or exacerbated by physical ...

  8. Abbe–Koenig prism - Wikipedia

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    An Abbe–Koenig prism is a type of reflecting prism, used to invert an image (rotate it by 180°). They are commonly used in binoculars and some telescopes for this purpose. The prism is named after Ernst Abbe and Albert Koenig . The prism is made from two glass prisms, which are optically cemented together to form a symmetric, shallow Vee ...

  9. Side effect (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, an operation, function or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of reading the value of its arguments and returning a value to the invoker of the operation. Example side effects include modifying or reading a non-local variable, a static local variable or a ...