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Bilious
The adjective for bile, bilious has three meanings. It means of or relating to bile. By extension, bilious means suffering from liver dysfunction (and especially excessive secretion of bile). And, further by extension, it is indicative of…
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Show more- Slipped spine See: Spondylolisthesis
- Neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth See Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Kubler-Ross See: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Test, rapid strep A diagnostic test commonly used to demonstrate whether streptococcus bacteria ('strep') are present in the…
- Vulnerary (Plural = vulneraries). A remedy used in healing or treating wounds. Any preparation, plant or drug used in…
- Parturition Childbirth, the process of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside…
- PEEP Peeping tom (voyeurism) is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and…
- PVNS Pigmented villonodular synovitis
- Kirklin See: Kirklin, John W.
- Mutation, somatic See: Somatic mutation.
- DXA bone scan See: DXA
- Host 1. The organism from which a parasite obtains its nutrition and/or shelter.2. An organism or cell culture in…