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Face, masklike
A surgical procedure designed to make the face appear younger by pulling loose facial skin taut. With age or excessive sun exposure, wrinkled creased skin can develop on the face, neck or forehead along with fat deposits and folds around…
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- Syndrome, abdominal muscle deficiency See: Abdominal muscle deficiency syndrome
- Lancet, The A weekly medical journal headquartered in London. Published uninterruptedly and with the same title since…
- Acuity, auditory The clarity or clearness of hearing, a measure of how well a person hears and monitoring the ability to hear…
- Preleukemia A condition in which the bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells. This condition may progress to…
- ID See: Yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan.
- Physical map A person trained and certified by a state or accrediting body to design and implement physical therapy…
- Calf bone Familiar name for the fibula, the lateral (outside) and smaller of the two long bones in the lower leg. The…
- Sociogenomics The identification of the genes that influence social behavior, the understanding of the influence of these…
- Tic disorder A disorder characterized by the presence of tics. If both motor and vocal tics are present for more than six…
- Akinesia Impaired body movement; without movement (or without much movement). Akinesia is a term used in neurology to…
- Infantilism, Brissaud's An eponym that is little used (in the USA) for hypothyroidism (subnormal activity of the thyroid gland) that…