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Culdoscopy
The introduction of a viewing tube (called an endoscope or culdoscope) through the end of the vagina into the cul-de-sac. The cul-de-sac is also called the rectouterine pouch (the pouch of Douglas), an extension of the peritoneal cavity…
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Show more- Proinflammatory Capable of promoting inflammation. For example, air pollution may have proinflammatory effects
- Nucleus 1) In cell biology, the structure that houses the chromosomes. 2) In neuroanatomy, a group of nerve cells
- Sensory Relating to sensation, to the perception of a stimulus and the voyage made by incoming (afferent) nerve…
- Jugular The principal vein in the front of either side of the neck. The word comes from the Latin jugulum meaning…
- Reiter syndrome A chronic form of inflammatory arthritis wherein the following three conditions are combined: (1) arthritis…
- Bedwetting Bedwetting: Involuntary urination in bed. Bedwetting is called 'enuresis,' from the Greek 'enourin' meaning…
- Midlife crisis A period of personal emotional turmoil and coping challenges that some people encounter when they reach…
- Homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase The enzyme encoded in the HGD gene. Mutation of HGD causes the genetic disease alkaptonuria. Homogentisate…
- Gower syndrome (situational syncope) The temporary loss of consciousness in particular kinds of situations. (Syncope is temporary loss of…
- Bursae Plural of bursa
- Hair, lanugal The downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. The lanugal hair (or lanugo) is the first hair to…
- Fracture, hangman's See: Hangman's fracture