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Ventricle, third
>Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each lateral ventricle consists of a triangular central body and four horns. The lateral ventricles communicate with the third ventricle…
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Show more- Dysphonia See: Spasmodic dysphonia.
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- Tobacco smoking Smoking: The direct inhalation of tobacco smoke, the basis of major health hazards. Long known to cause…
- Mumps Mumps: An acute (sudden, shortlived) viral illness that usually presents with inflammation of the salivary…
- Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease See: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Louse-borne typhus See: Typhus, epidemic
- Edema, hereditary angioneurotic Edema, hereditary angioneurotic: A genetic form of angioedema. (Angioedema is also referred to as Quinke's…
- Eicosanoid A lipid mediator of inflammation derived from the 20-carbon atom arachidonic acid (20 in Greek is 'eicosa')…
- PGA (polyglandular autoimmune syndrome) A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Vaccine, Sabin polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Hangman's fracture A broken neck involving a fracture of an upper cervical vertebra similar to the injury suffered in death by…
- Compound fracture A fracture in which the bone is sticking through the skin. Also called an open fracture. NTER> Note that a…