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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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- Bag of waters Popular name for the amniotic sac together with the amniotic fluid within it. The amniotic sac is formed by…
- Blasts Immature blood cells. Leukemic blasts do not grow and age normally; they proliferate wildly and fail to mature
- Turner syndrome Turner syndrome: A chromosome disorder in females that is characterized by the absence of all or part of a…
- Pyarthrosis Infectious arthritis. Pyarthrosis is typically caused by a bacterial infection in the joint. Diagnosis is…
- Cancer Cancer: An abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and, in some cases, to…
- Anaplastology The art and science of restoring a malformed or absent part of the human body through artificial means. An…
- Pavlov stomach A Pavlov pouch fashioned surgically from part of the stomach (which is isolated from the rest of the…
- Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders S, National (NIDCD): One of the US National Institutes of Health. The mission of the National Institute on…
- Kirklin, John W. American cardiovascular surgeon (1920-2004) who improved and applied the heart-lung machine to open heart…
- Null mutation A mutation (a change) in a gene that leads to its not being transcribed into RNA and/or translated into a…
- Fine needle aspiration The use of a thin needle to withdraw material from the body. For example, this method is commonly used to…