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Race-based therapy
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- Fat, saturated A fat that is solid at room temperature and comes chiefly from animal food products. Some examples are…
- Dementia, hereditary multi-infarct See CADASIL
- Fracture, torsion A fracture, also called a spiral fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart. NTER> A fracture is any…
- Cast 1) A protective shell of plaster and bandage molded to protect a broken or fractured limb as it heals. 2) An…
- Scapula The shoulder blade (or 'wingbone'), the familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. The word…
- Hotel-Dieu A name often given to a hospital in France during the Middle Ages. Hotel-Dieu literally means the hotel (of)…
- Tachypnea (Pronounced tack-ip-nea.) Abnormally fast breathing. A respiratory rate that is too rapid. The normal rate of…
- Dilating The widening and opening of the cervix caused by uterine contractions
- Autosomal dominant radial drusen See: Malattia leventinese
- Lymph node The first lymph node ("gland") to receive lymphatic drainage from a tumor. Which lymph node is the sentinel…