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ACL injury
See: Anterior cruciate injury
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- Eidetic 1. Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall, especially of images. 2. By extension, an individual…
- Anterograde amnesia See: Antegrade amnesia
- Lungs The lungs are a pair of breathing organs located with the chest which remove carbon dioxide from and bring…
- Hives from pressure See Pressure urticaria
- Cortical blindness Blindness due to loss or injury to the visual cortex, that section of the cerebral cortex responsible for…
- Transverse fracture A fracture in which the break is across the bone, at a right angle to the long axis of the bone. NTER>
- Radioisotope A version of a chemical element that has an unstable nucleus and emits radiation during its decay to a stable…
- C5 (cervical vertebra) The fifth cervical (neck) vertebra from the top
- Cysticercosis An infection caused by the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium. Infection occurs when the tapeworm larvae enter the…
- Cytosine (C) One member of the G-C (guanine-cytosine) pair of bases in DNA