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Gray's Anatomy
A book entitled 'Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical' by Henry Gray appeared in 1858. Little could Dr. Gray have suspected that his textbook of human anatomy would still be in print today and be perhaps the best known of all medical books…
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Show more- Muscular dystrophy, Ullrich congenital A disorder evident at birth characterized by muscle weakness, contractures of multiple joints, and…
- Small inducible cytokine A2 See: MPC1
- Generic drug >The chemical name of a drug. >A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Alpha synuclein See: Alpha-synuclein
- Allopathist See: Allopath
- Anlagen The plural of anlage. See: Anlage
- Sepsis, neonatal A serious blood bacterial infection in an infant less than 4 weeks of age. Babies with sepsis may be…
- Prokaryote A unicellular organism lacking a nuclear membrane, a discrete nucleus, and other specialized compartments…
- Motor In medicine, having to do with the movement of a part of the body. Something that produces motion or refers…
- Denervate To deprive of the nerve supply. Denervate is the opposite of innervate
- Atelectasis, primary See: Primary atelectasis
- Bougie A thin cylinder of rubber, plastic, metal or another material that a physician inserts into or though a body…