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Musicomania
A singular passion for music that is excessive and beyond all reason. From the French musicomanie, from music + -mania, frenzy
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- Synaptic cleft The tiny space between two nerve cells across which the neurotransmitter acetylcholine diffuses
- Cripple 1. A person who is lame or disabled. 2. To maim or disable a person. The word 'cripple' is a medically…
- Whiplash injury Hyperextension (over-extension) injury to the neck, often the result of being struck from behind, as by a…
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- Antithymocyte globulin An immunosuppressive agent that selectively destroys T lymphocytes. Antithymocyte globulin is the gamma…