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Cataplasm
A poultice or plaster. A soft moist mass, often warm and medicated, that is spread over the skin to treat an inflamed, aching or painful area, to improve the circulation, etc. From the Greek kataplasma, poultice, from kataplasso, to spread…
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- Alpha-linolenic acid An essential fatty acid found in flaxseed oil, canola oil and walnuts. Abbreviated ALA
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8 ALS8. A form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to mutation…
- Clinical social worker, licensed See: Licensed clinical social worker
- Eye pressure test A standard eye test that determines the fluid pressure inside the eye. The test is called tonometry…
- Anhidrosis Not sweating. From the Greek an- meaning a lack of + hidros meaning sweat = lack of sweat. The inability to…
- Mutation, nonsense A mutation (a change) in a base in the DNA that prematurely stops the translation (reading) of messenger RNA…
- Polygenic Pertaining to two or more genes. As opposed to monogenic. Eye color is polygenic. It is by determined by a…
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- Medical word origin See: Medical etymology