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Cryoelectron microscopy
See: Cryo-electron microscopy
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- Meatus An opening or passageway. For example, the female urethral meatus. The urethra is the transport tube from the…
- Labor Childbirth, the aptly-named experience of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to…
- Macrogenitosomia Condition in which the external sex organs are prematurely enlarged or abnormally enlarged. In males, it is…
- Osteolytic lesion A 'punched-out' area of severe bone loss. Osteolytic lesions are seen in metastatic lung and breast cancer…
- Stewart See: Stewart, Alice
- Deficiency, calcium See: Calcium deficiency
- Adhesion The union of two opposing tissue surfaces (often in reference to the sides of a wound). Also refers to scar…
- Pathogen An agent of disease. A disease producer. The term pathogen most commonly is used to refer to infectious…
- Adenomyosis uteri Also known more succinctly as adenomyosis (pronounced ad-den-o-mi-o- sis), this is a common benign condition…
- Beaded vitreous type Stickler syndrome Stickler syndrome, type II. See: Stickler syndrome
- Schwartz-Jampel syndrome The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…