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- Multiple organ failure A term synonymous with multiple system failure and equally vague and nonspecific. See: Multiple system failure
- Spider phobia See: Arachnophobia
- Agent, antihypertensive As the name suggests, a drug aimed at reducing high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Infantile autism Autism: (Also called autism.) A spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by deficits in social…
- Thorax The area of the body located between the neck and the abdomen that contains the lungs, the heart and part of…
- Anti-platelet agents Medications that, like aspirin, reduce the tendency of platelets in the blood to clump and clot
- Salk vaccine Vaccine against poliomyelitis named for Dr. Jonas Salk who developed and introduced it in 1955. It was the…
- Morning glory syndrome A birth defect of the optic nerve (the nerve to the eye) in which there is a coloboma (cleft) of the optic…
- Fracture, greenstick A fracture in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent (like a green stick). NTER> A…
- Gestation period The period of development of the young from the time of conception until birth. For humans the full gestation…
- Delivery, vertex In a vertex delivery, the top of the baby's head comes first. The vertex here refers to the top of the head…