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Heart
The muscle that pumps blood received from veins into arteries throughout the body. It is positioned in the chest behind the sternum (breastbone; in front of the trachea, esophagus, and aorta; and above the diaphragm muscle that separates…
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- Sleep talking NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep is dreamless sleep. During NREM, the brain waves on the…
- CB2 See: Cannabinoid receptor 2.
- Microchimerism The presence of two genetically distinct and separately derived populations of cells, one population being at…
- Monochromat A person with one of the many forms of colorblindness
- Organotherapy The use of extracts of animal glands or organs to treat disease. Pituitary extracts from pigs, for example…
- Nail grooves See: Beau's lines
- Autotransplantation The process of transplanting tissue from one part of the body to another in the same individual. The…
- Duloxetine Duloxetine: See: Cymbalta.
- Gage, Phineas The most famous patient to have survived severe damage to the brain and the first from whom something was…
- PEP The abbreviation PEP stands for a number of things in medicine including post-exposure prophylaxis…
- Glomerulus 1.In the kidney, a tiny ball-shaped structure composed of capillary blood vessels actively involved in the…