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Calcaneocuboid joint
The calcaneocuboid joint is located in the foot between the calcaneus bone (the heel bone) and the cuboid bone (a bone shaped like a cube just in front of the calcaneus). The calcaneocuboid joint is a gliding type of joint. The ligaments…
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- HSP Henoch-Schonlein purpura. See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Yersinia pestis The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and later in the…
- Mycelium An array of fungal filaments which was thought to resemble a display of decorative nails. From the Greek…
- Facultative heterochromatin Chromosome material that can be either heterochromatin or euchromatin. The inactive X chromosome is made up…
- Essential vulvodynia A chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the female external genital organs…
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- Optic cup The white, cup-like area in the center of the optic disc. The optic disk is the circular area at the back of…
- Disease, Bright's Chronic inflammation of the blood vessels in the kidney with protein, specifically albumin, in the urine…
- Hoarding, pathological Hoarseness is a term referring to abnormal voice changes. Hoarseness may be manifested as a voice that sounds…
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