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Facial canal introitus
In anatomy, an introitus is an entrance, one that goes into a canal or hollow organ. The introitus of the facial canal is the entrance to the facial canal, a passage in the temporal bone of the skull through which the facial nerve (the 7th…
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Show more- Tibia The larger of the two bones in the leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The tibia is familiarly known as…
- Elective In medicine, something chosen (elected). An elective procedure is one that is chosen (elected) by the patient…
- Lanugo Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair…
- Pulmonary stenosis The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
- Autosomal recessive A genetic condition that appears only in individuals who have received two copies of an autosomal gene, one…
- Biopsy, endometrial See: Endometrial biopsy
- Syndrome, Zellweger A genetic disorder, also called the cerebrohepatorenal syndrome, characterized by the reduction or absence of…
- Gastroentenologist A common misspelling of gastroenterologist
- Orthopaedics The branch of surgery broadly concerned with the skeletal system (bones). This particular term is commonly…
- Ductular hypoplasia, syndromatic hepatic Also called Alagille syndrome or arteriohepatic dysplasia, this is a genetic disorder characterized by…
- IUGR 1. Originally, intrauterine growth retardation.2. More recently, intrauterine growth restriction.
- Absolute CD4 count The number of 'helper' CD4 T-lymphocytes in a cubic millimeter of blood. With HIV, the absolute CD4 count…