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Blood blister
A blister full of blood due to a pinch, bruise or repeated friction. A blister is medically termed a vesicle. One that is more than 5 mm in diameter with thin walls and is full of watery fluid is called a bulla or a bleb. The word…
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- Cystectomy Surgery to remove the bladder. Cystic fibrosis: A common genetic disease inherited as a recessive condition…
- Amblyopia Amblyopia: Partial or complete loss of vision in one eye caused by conditions that affect the normal…
- Cubital 1. Pertaining to the elbow.2. Pertaining to the forearm and hand.3. Pertaining to the ulna.From the Latin…
- Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth A viral syndrome with a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth. The internal rash (the enanthem)…
- Child neglect Child neglect is the most frequently reported form of child abuse (60% of all cases) and the most lethal…
- Bones of the skeleton The human body has 206 bones. These consist of 80 axial (head and trunk) bones and 126 appendicular (upper…
- Endodermal Pertaining to the endoderm or to tissues derived from the endoderm
- Physiology >Some physiological studies are concerned with processes that go on within cells such as phagocytosis, the…
- Recipient In medicine, a recipient is someone who receives something like a blood transfusion or an organ transplant…
- L- Abbreviation for levorotatory, applied to a chemical compound, as in l-dopa. Levorotary is opposed to…
- Roentgenology Radiology, the science of radiation and, specifically, the use of both ionizing (like X-ray) and nonionizing…