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Show more- Perineal Of or relating to the perineum
- Dehydration Dehydration: Excessive loss of body water. Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract that cause vomiting or…
- Juncture In anatomy, a place where two or more structures join; a joint. From the Latin jungere, to join
- Postmenopausal cervical kyphosis An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the…
- Polle syndrome The Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. Polle was the fictional Baron Munchausen's only child and died at a year…
- Pacemaker, internal A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm. An internal…
- Complete hysterectomy Hysterectomy: Complete surgical removal of the uterus and cervix. Also called a total hysterectomy.
- Blood pressure The blood pressure is the pressure of the blood within the arteries. It is produced primarily by the…
- Descending aorta The descending aorta is the part of the aorta, the largest artery in the body, that runs down through the…
- Trichotillomania Compulsive hair pulling. A disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes…
- Angiostrongylus infection Also called angiostrongyliasis. See: Angiostrongyliasis
- Sex chromosome The X chromosome or the Y chromosome, in humans. The sex chromosomes determine the sex of an individual. As a…