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Tartar
Tartar is the hardened product of longstanding plaque accumulating minerals from the saliva and foods. Plaque is the soft accumulation of food debris and bacteria around teeth. These bacteria feed on left over food in the mouth to excrete…
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Show more- Crohn enterocolitis See: Crohn disease
- Apraxia The inability to execute a voluntary motor movement despite being able to demonstrate normal muscle function…
- Vestibule of the ear A cavity in the middle of the bony labyrinth in the inner ear
- Disseminated vaccinia See Progressive vaccinia
- Crohn colitis Crohn disease involving only the large intestine (colon). Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder…
- Vitamin P An old name for substances now known as bioflavinoids. They are no longer considered to be vitamins by the…
- Pediatric rheumatologist See: Urinary tract infection in children.
- Chromosome, acentric An abnormal chromosome (a microscopically visible carrier of the genetic material DNA) with two centromeres…
- Assembly and budding A portion of the processes by which new HIV is formed in infected host cells. Viral core proteins, enzymes…
- Cancer, uterine See: Uterine cancer
- Diseases, rickettsial The infectious diseases caused by the rickettsiae fall into 4 groups:(1) typhus: epidemic typhus…
- Gray A unit of absorbed radiation equal to the dose of one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of matter, or 100…