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Body stuffing
The swallowing of relatively small amounts of loosely wrapped illicit drugs because of the fear of arrest
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- Foot-drop brace See Ankle-foot orthosis
- Soft tissue sarcoma A malignant tumor that begins in the muscle, fat, fibrous tissue, blood vessels, or other 'soft' supporting…
- Fibroma, nonossifying A growing lesion with a fibroma structure. Treatment is by surgery
- Magnetic resonance elastography An imaging technique used to measure the elasticity of tissue by gently shaking the tissue in a magnetic…
- PEEP Peeping tom (voyeurism) is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and…
- No show Term used in the US for a patient who missed an appointment. (In the UK, a patient who failed an appointment…
- Angina, exudative Angina, exudative: This has nothing whatsoever to do with the usual type of angina (angina pectoris) which is…
- Viable Capable of life. For example, a viable premature baby is one who is able to survive outside the womb.
- Microscopic anatomy The study of the form of structures seen under the microscope, as opposed to gross anatomy which involves…
- Faciogenital dysplasia See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome