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Piercing
Using a sharp instrument, usually a needle, to make a temporary or permanent hole through an earlobe or other body part. Humans have practiced piercing for body decoration since prehistoric times. Unless it is performed using a sterile…
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Show more- Virus, attenuated To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- First degree burn See: Burn, first degree
- Nodes, Osler's A diagnostic sign of bacterial infection of the heart (subacute bacterial endocarditis). These are small (the…
- Epidemic myalgia Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Chromosome complement The whole set of chromosomes for the species. In humans, the chromosome complement (which is also called the…
- Afterbirth The placenta + the fetal membranes that are normally expelled from the uterus after the birth of the baby…
- Recurrent trisomy Recurrence of trisomy, as when there are two or more children with trisomy in the same family. Recurrent…
- Giant cell tumor, malignant A type of bone tumor characterized by massive destruction of bone near the end (epiphysis) of a long bone…
- Y. pestis Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and…
- Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniform Rvices: See: CHAMPUS
- AVN Avascular necrosis
- Chromesthesia A type of synesthesia in which which a nonvisual stimulus causes the individual to perceive color. Color…