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Fetishism
Fetishism is a problem in which a person has sexual urges associated with non-living objects. The person becomes sexually aroused by wearing or touching the object. For example, the object of a fetish could be an article of clothing, such…
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- PELD Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease. A disease severity scoring system for children under 18 years of age…
- Clitoridectomy See Clitorectomy
- June cold A popular term for hay fever. Although the symptoms of a 'June cold' may be quite similar to those of a real…
- Radiation therapy, 3-D A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target it as…
- Abdominal Relating to the abdomen, the belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the…
- Brill-Zinsser disease Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Z chromosome A sex chromosome in certain animals, such as chickens, turkeys, and moths. In humans, males are XY and…
- CCD (cleidocranial dysostosis) >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein ALOX5AP. See: FLAP
- Knee, housemaid's See: Housemaid's knee