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Perinatologist
An obstetrical subspecialist concerned with the care of the mother and fetus at higher-than-normal risk for complications. Since the perinatal period, depending on the definition, starts at the 20th to 28th week of gestation and ends 1 to…
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Show more- Film, PA An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from back-to-front (posteroanterior). As opposed to an AP…
- Xanax See: Alprazolam
- Musset sign See: de Musset sign
- Capillaries Capillaries are the smallest of blood vessels. They serve to distribute oxygenated blood from arteries to the…
- Saami health See: Artic health
- Heterophyes The replacement of normal tissue of the body by abnormal tissue or by malpositioned normal tissue, a tissue…
- Alpha-ethltryptamine An illicit hallucinogenic drug related to tryptamine. Street names for alpha-ethyltryptamine include…
- Mega- (prefix) The combining form 'mega-' comes from the Greek 'megas', great or big and means abnormally large…
- Cavities Cavities: Holes in the two outer layers of a tooth called the enamel and the dentin. The enamel is the…
- Bulimia nervosa See Bulimia
- Anti-angiogenesis drugs These drugs, which include angiostatin and Endostatin, halt the process of developing new blood vessels…
- Xero- Fix): Dry. From the Greek 'xeros' meaning 'dry.' Examples of words containing 'xero-' -- xeroderma is dry…