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The infant in swaddling, today the symbol of pediatrics, sculpted by the Florentine artist Andrea della Robbia (1437-1528)
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Show more- Vesical Refers to the urinary bladder. The word comes from the Latin vesica meaning a bag or bladder
- CF 1. Cystic fibrosis, one of the most frequent and serious genetic diseases, CF affects the exocrine glands and…
- Frostbite Frostbite: Damage to tissues from freezing due to the formation of ice crystals within cells, rupturing the…
- Musculus The Latin for muscle. Plural: musculi. In anatomy and many medical textbooks and dictionaries, the muscles…
- Constipation Constipation: Infrequent (and frequently incomplete) bowel movements. The opposite of diarrhea, constipation…
- Heart, right The heart is composed functionally of two hearts - the right heart and the left heart. The right heart…
- Scarlet fever Also called scarlatina, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria that occurs in a…
- Dysostosis, cleidocranial >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Tooth numbering The accordance of a unique number to each tooth. The Universal/National System for permanent (adult)…
- Central line A catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava…
- Therapy, behavior A treatment program that involves substituting desirable behavior responses for undesirable ones
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and…