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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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First American medical journal
The Medical Repository, founded in 1797 and published quarterly until 1824. The Medical Repository was the first serious attempt in the US to present the relation between science and practice in a serial format that allowed response and…
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- Salpingo-oophorectomy Removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries
- Solar keratosis Synonymous with actinic keratosis. See: Keratosis, actinic
- Chromosome duplication Part of a chromosome in duplicate. A particular kind of mutation involving the production of one or more…
- Melatonin A hormone produced by the pineal gland, melatonin is intimately involved in regulating the sleeping and…
- Tricuspid Having three flaps or cusps. The valve that is called the tricuspid valve is situated between the right…
- Andrology The branch of medicine concerned with men's health, particularly male infertility and sexual dysfunction…
- Butyric acid An acid that has four carbons in it. The formula for butyric acid is: CH3-CH2-CH2-COOH
- Alveolar Pertaining to the alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 6 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal recessive manner due to mutation in a gene on…
- Sequence, conserved A base sequence in a DNA molecule (or an amino acid sequence in a protein) that has remained essentially…
- Patient autonomy The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to…