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Toilet
1. In medicine, cleansing of a wound and the skin around it. 2. In obstetrics, cleansing of a woman just after childbirth. 3. In dentistry, the cleaning out of a cavity before a restoration. 4. A device for the disposal of urine and feces…
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Show more- Amenorrhea Absence or cessation of menstruation. Amenorrhea is conventionally divided into primary and secondary…
- Gibbon See: Gibbon, John H., Jr.
- Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency A genetic (inherited) condition that results in a immune deficiency disorder called severe combined…
- Skull, hair-on-end Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Upper leg The upper leg is the superior (top) segment of the leg: the part above the knee. As compared to the lower leg…
- Crohn ileocolitis Crohn disease involving the ileum (the lowest portion of the small intestine) and the colon (the large…
- Macule A small localized change in the color of skin that is neither raised (elevated) nor depressed. Macules are…
- Trench mouth A progressive painful infection of the mouth and throat with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Syndrome, tetraphocomelia-thrombocytopenia See Syndrome, TAR.
- Alkaloid, vinca See: Vinca alkaloid
- Silver A metal used in some medications and in many 'natural' remedies, as well as in silver amalgam for filling…
- Sand-blind Partly blind, semi-blind, half-blind. From the Old English samblind from sam- meaning semi- + blind. In the…