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Abortive
The word 'abortive' has a number of meanings including prematurely born; fruitless or unsuccessful; imperfectly formed or developed; tending to cut short. In everyday language, the sense of 'abortive' to mean prematurely born, as 'an…
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- Rothmund-Thomson syndrome To go around and see a patient in a hospital or other in-patient setting.
- Tricuspid valve One of the four heart valves, the tricuspid valve is the first one that blood encounters as it enters the…
- Bacillus A large family of bacteria that have a rod-like shape. They include the bacteria that cause food to spoil…
- Lymphoma, lymphoblastic A rapidly moving, aggressive form of lymphoma most often seen in children or young adults. Treatment may be…
- Painful vulva Also called essential vulvodynia, a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the…
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome Landau-Kleffner syndrome: A disorder with seizures starting in childhood in which the patient loses skills…
- Alveolus One of the tiny air sacs located at the very ends of the bronchioles within the lungs where the exchange of…
- Skin graft, pedicle A graft technique in which a piece of skin from a nearby area remains attached at one of its corners, while…
- Disease, sixth A viral disease of infants and young children with sudden onset of high fever which lasts several days and…
- Analytic sensitivity The lowest level of a substance that can be detected by an analytic method
- Immunodepressant An agent that can depress or prevent the immune response. See: Immunosuppressant