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Internal jugular vein
The deeper of the two jugular veins in the neck that drain blood from the head, brain, face and neck and convey it toward the heart. The internal jugular vein collects blood from the brain, the outside of the face and the neck. It runs…
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Show more- Pediatric cystitis Bladder infection in a child. See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- Sweet wormwood A Chinese herb (also called qinghaosu) from which is extracted the antimalarial agent artemisinin
- Calcification The process of building bone by suffusing tissues with calcium salts. Also called ossification
- Vestibule In medicine and dentistry, a vestibule is a space or cavity at the entrance to a canal, channel, tube…
- Kidney transplant Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a renal transplant…
- Recalcitrant Stubborn. For example, a recalcitrant case of pneumonia stubbornly resists treatment
- Psoriasis, erythrodermic A particularly inflammatory form of psoriasis that often affects most of the body surface. It is the least…
- Tooth root sensitivities Oversensitivity of exposed roots of teeth to cold, hot, and sour foods because those roots are no longer…
- Drain, Jackson-Pratt See: JP drain
- RNAi Abbreviation for RNA interference. See RNA interference
- Shock, septic Shock caused by infection. See also septicemia.