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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Prefix indicating living plants or creatures, as in biology, the study of living organisms
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- Blinded study A study done in such a way that the patients or subjects do not know (is blinded as to) what treatment they…
- Atrophy, peroneal muscular Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Power outage food safety >For the Freezer section: A freezer that is half full will hold food safely for up to 24 hours. A full…
- Incompetent cervix A cervix that is abnormally liable to dilate and so is not competent to keep the fetus up in the uterus and…
- Fear of ghosts An abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they…
- Cushingoid Having the constellation of symptoms and signs caused by an excess of cortisol hormone: that is, Cushing…
- BRCA2 A gene that normally acts to restrain the growth of cells in the breast and ovary but which, when mutated…
- Pubarche Just as menarche means the time when menstruation begins, pubarche indicates when pubic hair begins.
- Epsom salt Magnesium sulfate. Known as Epsom salt because it was originally extracted from the mineral-rich water of…
- In Abbreviation for inch