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Acid, trans fatty
An unhealthy substance, also known as trans fat, made through the chemical process of hydrogenation of oils. Hydrogenation solidifies liquid oils and increases the shelf life and the flavor stability of oils and foods that contain them…
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- False labor Intermittent non-productive muscular contractions of the womb (uterus) during pregnancy, most commonly in the…
- Life support 1. A therapy or device designed to preserve someone's life when an essential bodily system is not doing so…
- Senile chorea A relatively mild and uncommon disorder that occurs in elderly adults and is characterized by choreic…
- Computer addiction A disorder in which the individual turns to the Internet or plays computer games in an attempt to change…
- Ocular Having to do with the eye. In a microscope, the lens closest to the eye is termed the ocular (the eyepiece)…
- Eye, no Also called anophthalmia, a congenital malformation (birth defect) of the globe. Anophthalmia refers…
- Hygiene The science of preventive medicine and the preservation of health. From the name of Hygeia, the daughter of…
- Biloma An encapsulated collection of bile within the abdomen. A biloma may form if there is bile duct disruption, as…
- British National Formulary Osteogenesis imperfecta, not one but a group of genetic diseases, all of which affect collagen, a key…
- Central retinal artery The blood vessel that carries blood into the eye and supplies nutrition to the retina. The counterpart to the…