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Leg, upper
The upper leg is the superior (top) segment of the leg: the part above the knee. As compared to the lower leg which boasts two bones (the tibia and the fibula), the upper leg has only one bone: the femur but a very large bone it is, the…
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Show more- OPV Oral polio vaccine. See Polio vaccine, oral
- Microtubule motor See: Microtubule motor protein
- Calculi, renal Kidney stones, by another name. A common cause of blood in the urine and pain in the abdomen, flank, or…
- SBCC Superficial basal cell carcinoma. A basal cell cancer of the skin that is superficial and has not infiltrated…
- Birth control, emergency See: Emergency contraception
- Syndrome, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Contrast sensitivity, visual The ability to perceive differences between an object and its background
- Medication, antiviral An drug that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…
- FCC In medicine, familial colorectal cancer (not the Federal Communications Commission)
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVB Morquio syndrome due to deficiency of the enzyme beta-galactosidase. See also Mucopolysaccharidosis
- Complementary sequence Nucleic acid sequence of bases that can form a double- stranded structure by matching base pairs. For…
- Micturition Urination, the act of urinating. The word 'micturition' comes from the Latin 'micturire' which has a slightly…