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Delivery, footling
There are single-footling or double-footling deliveries depending upon whether the presenting part of the baby at delivery is just one foot or both feet
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Show more- Urogenital Relating to both the urinary system, and to the interior and exterior genitalia
- Fear of vomiting An abnormal and persistent fear of vomiting. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they…
- Cell lineage A genealogic pedigree of cells related through mitotic division
- Sperm stem cell A cell that is incapable of fertilizing an egg cell but can give rise to cells that develop into sperm. Sperm…
- Flu, bird See: Avian influenza
- Recommended Daily Allowance Popular name for the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
- Acute idiopathic polyneuritis Also known as the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder characterized by progressive symmetrical paralysis and…
- Dysplasia, cleidocranial >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Pulmonology The study and science of the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the lungs. See also: Pulmonary medicine
- Prosthesis An artificial substitute or replacement of a part of the body such as a tooth, eye, a facial bone, the…
- Shin 1. The tibia, the larger of the two bones in the lower leg.2. The anterior aspect (front) of the tibia
- Diet, Mediterranean See: Mediterranean diet