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Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty: Plastic surgery on the nose, known familiarly as a nose job. Rhinoplasty is a facial cosmetic procedure, usually performed to enhance the appearance of the nose. During rhinoplasty, the nasal cartilages and bones are modified…
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Show more- Aquaporin A water channel. Aquaporins form pores in the membranes of cells and selectively conduct water molecules…
- Obesity, endogenous Overweight caused by malfunction of the hormonal or metabolic system
- Blastomycosis Infection with a fungus called Blastomyces dermatitidis. The infection causes symptoms in about 50% of cases…
- Baby, fetal alcohol syndrome See: Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Leukocyte count A white blood cell (WBC) count.
- Maneuver, Valsalva See: Valsalva maneuver
- Vesicular Pertaining to the presence of one or more vesicles. A vesicle is a small blister. A vesicular rash features…
- Prandial Of or relating to a meal. Prandial pain is pain while eating. Although medical terms usually have a…
- Narcolepsy Narcolepsy: A neurological disorder marked by a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep…
- Laminopathy A disease due to mutation of the lamin A/C gene. The laminopathies include: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy…
- Analgesia The inability to feel pain while still conscious. From the Greek an-, without + algesis, sense of pain.
- Plague bacterium genome All of the DNA (the genome) of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, consisting of four rings…