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Crypt
In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression, or a pit -- in an otherwise fairly flat surface. Cryptic in the case of the tonsils refer to the tonsillar crypts which are little pitlike depressions in…
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Show more- Alternative Medicine, National Center for Compleme See: National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Seizure Seizure: Uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain, which may produce a physical convulsion, minor…
- Seat belt A belt used to hold an individual in their seat. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for…
- Vomit Matter from the stomach that has come up into and may be ejected beyond the mouth, due to the act of…
- Arachnophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of spiders. Sufferers from arachnophobia experience undue anxiety even though…
- Placenta, succenturiate An extra placenta separate from the main placenta. In anatomy 'succenturiate' means accessory to an organ. In…
- Distance healing Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. Distance healing can include…
- Lipids Another word for 'fats.' (Please see the various meanings of Fat.) Lipids can be more formally defined as…
- Gamma linolenic acid See: Gamma-linolenic acid
- Lung, collapsed Failure of full expansion of a once fully expanded lung. Medically called atelectasis. The word comes from…
- Osteopenia Mild thinning of the bone mass, but not as severe as osteoporosis. Osteopenia results when the formation of…
- Arth. and Musculoskeletal and Skin Dis, Nat'l Inst S and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of (NIAMS): One of the National Institutes of…