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Sense, balance
Our sense of balance is regulated by a complex interaction of the following parts of the nervous system: > >The inner ears (also called the labyrinth) monitor the directions of motion, such as turning or forward-backward, side-to-side, and…
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- Dicysteine Cystine
- Acute confusional state See: Delirium
- Infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast Breast: Infiltrating lobular carcinoma is the second most common type of invasive breast cancer next to…
- Stenosis, subaortic Narrowing of the left ventricle of the heart just below the aortic valve through which blood must pass on its…
- MCI Mild cognitive impairment
- CDHR Center for Devices & Radiological Health, part of the FDA (the US Food & Drug Administration)
- Two-faced twins Twin: Known medically as diprosopus, two-faced twins are conjoined twins (incompletely separated identical…
- Tetraphocomelia-thrombocytopenia syndrome See TAR syndrome
- Acrocentric chromosome A chromosome (one of the microscopically visible carriers of the genetic material DNA) with its centromere…
- Line, germ A sequence of cells, each descended from earlier cells in the lineage, which will develop into new sperm and…
- Neuraminidase inhibitor A drug that inhibits the enzyme called neuraminidase. For example, oseltamivir (Tamiflu), an antiinfluenza…