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Orbit
In medicine, the bony cavity in which the eyeball sits together with its associated muscles, blood vessels, and nerves. The orbit is formed of parts of the ethmoid, frontal, lacrimal, nasal, palatine, sphenoid, and zygomatic bones and the…
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Show more- Radical prostatectomy A surgery procedure that removes the entire prostate gland plus some surrounding tissue. During the procedure…
- Hypocapnia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypoapnia is the opposite of hypercapnia. The…
- Chromaesthesia See: Chromesthesia
- DNA (figurative) The essence or master blueprint of something. Since DNA became widely known to be the genetic material of…
- Sliding hiatal hernia Hiatal hernias are categorized as being either sliding or para-esophageal. Sliding hiatal hernias are those…
- QALY Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is…
- Puerperal fever Fever that lasts for more than 24 hours within the first 10 days after a woman has had a baby. Puerperal…
- T (thymine) In genetics, T stands for thymine, one member of the A-T (adenine-thymine) base pair in DNA. The other base…
- Mycobacterium marinum Mycobacterium marinum: A bacterium found in both fresh and salt water that can cause disease in fish and…
- Exacerbate To make worse. For example, smoking may exacerbate systemic lupus erythematosus
- Sabin, Florence R. Sandy or gritty. For example, the sludge in bile may be sabulous. And the stony sediment in urine may be…
- Gene-expression profiling A genomic technique that based on the fact that only a fraction of the genes encoded in the genome of a cell…