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Transsexualism
A consistently strong desire to change one's anatomical gender. Some transsexuals were misassigned gender at birth (for example, being anatomically male but raised as female), either on purpose or due to ambiguous anatomy. Most…
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Show more- Diplopia, binocular Double vision (diplopia) that is only evident when looking through both eyes and disappears if one eye is…
- Intrauterine In the uterus (the womb). As opposed to extrauterine: outside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies are…
- Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome See: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Inguinal orchiectomy Surgery to remove the testicle, with the incision made through the groin.
- Prefixes, medical Medical words are often put together, cobbled from two or more building blocks. Among these building blocks…
- Bursae Plural of bursa
- US Department of Agriculture A department of the executive branch of the US government founded in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln -- he…
- Macrophage A type of white blood that ingests (takes in) foreign material. Macrophages are key players in the immune…
- Vaccination, infectious hepatitis See Immunization, hepatitis A.
- HHV-6 Human herpesvirus 6
- Film Slang shortening of X-ray film, an X-ray, a radiograph
- Leukopenia Lower than the normal amount of white blood cells.