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Show more- Optician A specialist in fitting eyeglasses and making lenses to correct vision problems. An optometrist performs eye…
- Speech disorder A disorder affecting the ability to produce normal speech. Speech disorders may affect articulation (phonetic…
- Deerfly fever An infection in rabbits and other wild rodents caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that can be…
- Autonomic failure Malfunction of the autonomic nervous system due to imbalance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic…
- Pelvis, gynecoid The gynecoid pelvis is one that is generally characteristic of a woman in its bone structure and therefore…
- Subcu Abbreviation for subcutaneous. Subcutaneous means under the skin. It implies just under the skin. With a…
- Cell, plasma A type of white blood cell that produces and secretes antibodies. A plasma cell is a fully differentiated…
- Arteriole A small branch of an artery (a vessel that carries blood high in oxygen away from the heart to the body)…
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
- Multicentric Having more than one center. A term often applied to tumors. A minority of Wilms tumors are multicentric and…
- Meningitis Inflammation of the meninges, usually due to a bacterial infection but sometimes from viral, protozoan, or…
- Vein, hepatic One of the veins which drains blood from the liver