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  2. Pleurodesis - Wikipedia

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    It is usually performed at the time of a diagnostic thoracoscopy. [citation needed] Povidone iodine is equally effective and safe as talc, and may be preferred because of easy availability and low cost. [6] Chemical pleurodesis is a painful procedure, and so patients are often premedicated with a sedative and analgesics.

  3. List of branches of psychology - Wikipedia

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    List of branches of psychology. 4 languages. ... This non-exhaustive list contains many of the sub-fields within the field of psychology: Abnormal psychology;

  4. List of syndromes - Wikipedia

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  5. Fibrothorax - Wikipedia

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    A technique called pleurodesis can be used to intentionally create scar tissue within the pleural space, usually as a treatment for repeated episodes of a punctured lung, known as a pneumothorax, or for pleural effusions caused by cancer. While this procedure usually generates only limited scar tissue, in rare cases a fibrothorax can develop.

  6. Decortication - Wikipedia

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    The procedure is usually performed when the lung is covered by a thick, inelastic pleural peel restricting lung expansion. In a non-medical aspect, decortication is the removal of the bark, husk, or outer layer, or peel of an object. [1] It may also be done in the treatment of chronic laryngitis.

  7. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    A list of people who have died during a specific period. The study of death or the dead. A notice of death; an obituary. nematology: The scientific study of nematodes. neoichnology: The study of footprints and traces of extant animals. neology: The study or art of creating new words or neologizing. The act of introducing a new word into a language.

  8. List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia

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    This is an alphabetical list of psychotherapies. This list contains some approaches that may not call themselves a psychotherapy but have a similar aim of improving mental health and well-being through talk and other means of communication. In the 20th century, a great number of psychotherapies were created.

  9. Lexical decision task - Wikipedia

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    For example, when primed with the word "bank," the left hemisphere would be bias to define it as a place where money is stored, while the right hemisphere might define it as the shore of a river. The right hemisphere may extend this and may also associate the definition of a word with other words that are related.