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Skittling
Street name for the high produced by abuse of the drug dextromethorphan
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Show more- Vertebrae, thoracic The 12 thoracic vertebrae are situated between the cervical (neck) vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. The…
- Glomerular Pertaining to the glomerulus, a tiny structure in the kidney that filters the blood to form urine
- Osteogenesis imperfecta Brittle bone disease. Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is not one but a group of genetic diseases, all of which…
- Pigmented villonodular synovitis A benign proliferative form of monoarthritis (arthritis in just one joint) that can occurs at any age but is…
- Stenotic Narrowed, as in a stenotic artery. From the Greek 'stenos' meaning narrow
- Postop Short for postoperative, after surgery. The opposite of postop is preop
- Utility In the analysis of health outcomes, utility is a number between 0 and 1 that is assigned to a state of health…
- Dermatitis and diarrhea, zinc deficiency Diarrhea, zinc deficiency:Among the consequences of zinc deficiency, dermatitis (skin inflammation) and…
- DCIS See Pendred syndrome.
- Urination, burning See: Dysuria
- Jaw The bones below the mouth (the mandible) and the bone above the mouth just above the mouth (the maxilla). The…
- Shingle In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease…