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Incest
Sexual activity between individuals so closely related that marriage is prohibited. Incest involving a child is a form of child abuse.
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- PARK4 Familial Parkinson disease type 4
- Solitude, fear of An abnormal and persistent fear of solitude, of being alone. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety…
- Reproductive cells The eggs and sperm are the reproductive cells. Each mature reproductive cell is haploid in that it has a…
- Anosmia No sense of smell, due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to develop. Loss of the sense of smell…
- Multidetector CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- German measles vaccine A vaccine designed to prevent rubella, or German measles. German measles was once seen merely as a child's…
- Vasoconstriction Narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contracting of the muscular wall of the vessels. The opposite…
- Fetoscopy A technique for looking directly at the fetus within the uterus (using a fetoscope).
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug: A type of drug commonly prescribed for the treatment of inflammation of…