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Pap Smear
Pap Smear: A screening test for cervical cancer based on the examination under the microscope of cells collected from the cervix, smeared on a slide and specially stained to reveal premalignant (before cancer) and malignant (cancer)…
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Show more- Cranial nerve VIII The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the…
- Fertility The ability to conceive and have children, the ability to become pregnant through normal sexual activity…
- Anaprox See: Naproxen
- Agonist maintenance treatment See: Methadone treatment program
- Middle ear infection, acute Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Aspergillosis Infection with the fungus Aspergillus, seen especially in people with a deficient immune system. The clinical…
- BF Abbreviation for 'black female' used by doctors as shorthand when jotting down the results of their physical…
- Itching Itching: An uncomfortable sensation in the skin that feels as if something is crawling on the skin or in the…
- Lassa virus The deadly cause of Lassa fever. Lassa virus is a virulent and highly transmissible RNA virus that belongs to…
- Xeroderma Abnormally dry skin. Xeroderma can be caused by a deficiency of vitamin A, systemic illness, overexposure to…
- Sequence, complementary Nucleic acid sequence of bases that can form a double- stranded structure by matching base pairs. For…
- Sacroiliac joint dysfunction (SI Joint Pain) : Pain arising from abnormalities or