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Pneumosilicosis
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- Antero- Prefix signifying before, earlier, front. From the Latin anterior meaning before
- CHARGE syndrome See: CHARGE association
- Iatrics Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Schedules, Gesell Developmental A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell…
- Endorphin One of the body's own painkillers, an opioid (morphine-like) chemical produced by the body that serves to…
- Lymphoma, indolent See: Indolent lymphoma
- Ectopia cordis A type of birth defect in the heart is abnormally located. In ectopia cordis, the heart usually protrudes…
- Test, erythropoietin A test of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO) in blood. An abnormal level of EPO may mean bone marrow or kidney…