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Breast development, early
The beginning of breast development at puberty is known medically as thelarche. It is now a normal event at an earlier age (e.g., age 8) than in the past. The term thelarche comes from two Greek words: 'thele,' nipple + 'arche,' beginning…
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- Desert fever A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…
- Super- Prefix meaning meaning above, more than normal, or excessive. As in superaspirin, superbug, superjacent…
- Mask of pregnancy Muddy-brown pigmentation on the cheeks or elsewhere on the face that develops in about half of all women…
- Physiatrist Next to child neglect, physical abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse, accounting…
- Impotence Impotence: A common problem among men characterized by the consistent inability to sustain an erection…
- Thrombocytosis See thrombocythemia
- Nephritis, infective tubulointerstitial Inflammation of the kidney due to infection. Symptoms include nausea, pain in the kidney area, fever, and…
- ACNM The American College of Nurse-Midwives. See: Nurse-midwife
- Juvenile chronic arthritis, systemic-onset See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Dissect To cut apart or separate tissue as, for example, for anatomical study or in surgery. Also, an artery is said…
- Abscission To remove tissue by cutting it away, as in surgery