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Cavities
Cavities: Holes in the two outer layers of a tooth called the enamel and the dentin. The enamel is the outermost white hard surface and the dentin is the yellow layer just beneath enamel. Both layers serve to protect the inner living tooth…
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Show more- Tablet In pharmacy, a medication, usually mixed with a binder powder, molded and pressed into the form of a tablet…
- Platelet count The calculated number of platelets in a volume of blood, usually expressed as platelets per cubic millimeter…
- Tumescent liposuction The surgical suctioning of fat deposits from specific parts of the body, the most common being the abdomen…
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage Hemorrhage: A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first noticed by somebody else or by the…
- Intelligence quotient An attempt to measure the intelligence of someone. Abbreviated IQ. The IQ score is usually based upon the…
- Fistulize To form or make a fistula, an abnormal passageway. As, for example, fistulizing Crohn's disease
- Thomas Campion See: Campion, Thomas
- Bifid uvula The uvula, the little V-shaped fleshy mass hanging from the back of the soft palate, is cleft or split. Cleft…
- Guillain-Barre syndrome See: Guillain-Barré syndrome.
- Coeval Of the same or equal age or duration. For example, the two elderly men were coeval with one another. Coeval…
- Chordoma A form of bone cancer that usually starts in the lower spinal column
- Laryngectomy, partial A surgical procedure on the voice box designed to preserve the voice. The surgeon removes part of the voice…