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Behavior center, moral
An area of the brain in what is known as the prefrontal cortex. Children who suffer damage before 16 months of age to the prefrontal cortex in the front of the brain tend later to display pathological behavior problems. From such cases, it…
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- Anticipatory grief The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of…
- Abortion In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and…
- Endogenous Inside. For example, endogenous cholesterol is cholesterol that is made inside the body and is not in the…
- Eidetic 1. Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall, especially of images. 2. By extension, an individual…
- Output, cardiac The amount of blood pumped by the heart per minute. The amount of blood put out by the left ventricle of the…
- Bioinformatics The sum of the computational approaches to analyze, manage, and store biological data. Bioinformatics…
- Stress fracture A fracture caused by repetitive stress, as may occur in sports, strenuous exercise, or heavy physical labor…
- Denervation Loss of nerve supply. There are many causes of denervation. Denervation may be due to a disease as, for…
- Magnetic resonance elastography An imaging technique used to measure the elasticity of tissue by gently shaking the tissue in a magnetic…
- Zenker's diverticulum See: Zenker diverticulum
- Aplastic anemia Anemia due to failure of the bone marrow to produce blood cells, including red and white blood cells as well…