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An alcoholic chaser reputed to relieve a hangover, usually needed the morning after imbibing too much alcohol. There is no scientific evidence as to the efficacy of this time-honored treatment for a hangover. The saying originated in the…
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Show more- Myxoma A benign tumor composed of primitive connective tissue. The plural is myxomas or myxomata
- Scorpion venom The potent poison of the scorpion, an insect that has an elongated body and a segmented, curved tail tipped…
- Roseola Roseola: Roseola is a childhood illness caused by virus infection characterized by high fevers followed by a…
- Cranial nerve I The first nerve to emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium). (There are twelve cranial nerves.) The first…
- Toco- Prefix meaning childbirth. For example, tocolysis is the slowing or halting of labor. Sometimes spelled tok-…
- Labor Childbirth, the aptly-named experience of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to…
- Temporal lobe The lobe of the cerebral hemisphere located down on the side just forward of the occipital lobe. The temporal…
- Cylindroma A benign tumor of skin adnexa such as the sweat gland, arising as a nodule on the scalp and, less often, the…
- Mycobacterium avium A slow-growing bacterium found in the soil and in dust particles that causes tuberculosis in birds and swine…
- Menopause, surgical Menopause, surgical: Surgical menopause is, not unexpectedly, menopause induced by surgery. Surgical…
- Uveitis Uveitis: Inflammation of the uvea, the part of the eye that collectively refers to the iris, the choroid of…
- Erythroprosopalgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common…