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Stratum corneum
The stratum corneum as a rule refers to the outermost layer of the epidermis, which is itself the outer layer of the skin. The full name of the stratum corneum of the skin is the stratum corneum epidermidis. The other stratum corneum, the…
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- Hidrosis Sweating, the production of perspiration. Hidrosis is the Greek word for sweating
- Heart transplant Heart transplant: A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a…
- Extravasate To exude from or pass through the walls of a vessel into the surrounding tissues. Blood, lymph, or urine can…
- Stromal Pertaining to the stroma of an organ. See: Stroma
- Palindrome Pertaining to a palindrome. A DNA sequence that reads the same in both directions is a palindromic sequence.
- Doctors' symbol A staff or rod, with a snake curled around it. It is the staff or rod of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios)…
- Paracentesis The removal of fluid from a body cavity using a needle, trocar, cannula, or other hollow instrument. A…
- Acu- A combining form indicating a relationship to a needle. As in acupuncture. From the Latin acus meaning needle
- Oriental lung fluke Paragonimus westermani. See: Paragonimiasis
- Probe (1) In surgery, a probe is a slender flexible rod with a blunt end used to explore, for example, an opening…
- Stain, Gram The Danish bacteriologist J.M.C. Gram (1853- 1938) devised a method of staining bacteria using a dye called…