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Slipped elbow
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- Rotator cuff disease Rotator cuff disease: Damage to the rotator cuff, a group of four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint…
- Sense In biology and medicine, the faculty of sensory reception. The ability to convey specific types of external…
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome Ramsay Hunt syndrome: A herpes virus infection of the geniculate nerve ganglion that causes paralysis of the…
- PCT The abbreviation 'PCT' stands for a number of things including porphyria cutanea tarda, literally, the late…
- Abdominal Relating to the abdomen, the belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the…
- Serum hepatitis Hepatitis B.
- Drug, antiviral An agent that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…
- Recessive, X-linked A gene on the X chromosome that expresses itself only when there is no different gene present at that locus…
- Artery, central retinal The blood vessel that carries blood into the eye and supplies nutrition to the retina. The counterpart to the…
- Piss A vulgar but ancient word used both as a noun and verb:1. (noun) Urine.2. (verb) To urinate.Piss is descended…