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Meconium ileus
Obstruction of the intestine (ileus) due to overly thick meconium, the dark sticky stuff that is normally present in the intestine at birth and, after trypsin and other enzymes from the pancreas have acted on it, is normally passed in the…
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Show more- Dermatoglyphics The study of the patterns of ridges on the skin of the fingers, palms, toes, and soles. Dermatoglyphics are…
- Urinary urgency An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…
- Pinel system The policy of treating the mentally ill in hospitals and other institutions humanely and without the use of…
- Biopsy, skin See: Skin biopsy
- Potassium The major positive ion (cation) found inside of cells. The chemical notation for potassium is K+. The proper…
- Lumbar radiculopathy Nerve irritation caused by damage to the discs between the vertebrae. Damage to the disc occurs because of…
- Gy Abbreviation for gray
- ALS8 See: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8
- Vectrin Brand name for minocycline
- Locus The place, in Latin.. In genetics, a locus is the place a gene occupies on a chromosome. One locus, two loci
- Polle syndrome The Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. Polle was the fictional Baron Munchausen's only child and died at a year…
- Taste Taste belongs to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. The complicated process of tasting begins…