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Pulmonary artery
One of the two vessels which are formed as terminal branches of the pulmonary trunk and convey unaerated blood to the lungs. The two pulmonary arteries differ in length and anatomy. The right pulmonary artery is the longer of the two. It…
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- Central At or near the center. In anatomy and medicine (as elsewhere), central is the opposite of 'peripheral' which…
- Sacroiliac joint dysfunction (SI Joint Pain) : Pain arising from abnormalities or
- Cholesterol lowering with fibrate The fibrates are cholesterol-lowering drugs that are primarily effective in lowering triglycerides and, to a…
- Ear The hearing organ. There are three sections of the ear, according to the anatomy textbooks. They are the…
- HeLa cell One of the cells grown from the cervical cancer of a young African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks. HeLa…
- Livid Black and blue.
- Berserk Frenzied, enraged. From the Norse berserkr, one of the old Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy
- Genitalia, ambiguous See: Ambiguous genitalia
- Recrudescence Reappearance of a disease after it has been quiescent. A new outbreak or the return of a disease. As, for…
- Syndrome, keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness See Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
- Sympathicoblastoma A surgical procedure to effect an immediate dramatic increase in the size of the pelvic outlet to permit…