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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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- Entomology The scientific study of insects. The application of entomology to medicine is termed medical entomology. See…
- KB 1. The skin disease Keratodermia blennorrhagicum. 2. Kilobase of DNA. The preferred abbreviation for kilobase…
- Tiredness See: Tired
- Fibroma, nonossifying A growing lesion with a fibroma structure. Treatment is by surgery
- Patellofemoral syndrome (PFS) Patellofemoral syndrome (PFS): The commonest cause of chronic knee pain, PFS characteristically causes vague…
- Scratch test for allergy A mammogram (an X-ray of the breast) in women who have no signs of breast cancer. It usually involves two…
- Muscle, heart A type of muscle with unique features only found in the heart. The heart or cardiac muscle is medically…
- Photic sneeze reflex A disorder, also known as the achoo syndrome, characterized by nearly uncontrollable paroxysms of sneezing…
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy Cholecystectomy: Rem of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) by laparoscopy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is…
- Della Robbia The infant in swaddling, today the symbol of pediatrics, sculpted by the Florentine artist Andrea della…
- Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) An enzyme that helps dissolve clots. tPA is made by the cells lining blood vessels and has also been…