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Aneurysmal bruit
A blowing sound heard over an aneurysm, a widening of a vessel. Bruit is French for noise
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- BSL-2 Biosafety level 2. A level of biosafety considered appropriate for agents that can cause human disease, but…
- Reflux The term used when liquid backs up into the esophagus from the stomach
- Double-masked See: Double-blind
- Skute barbata See: Scutellaria barbata
- DHRD Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy, an eye disease also known as malattia leventinese. See: Malattia…
- Trichinosis Trichinosis: See: Trichinellosis.
- Syndrome, Rendu-Osler-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Gametic Pertaining to the gamete (the sperm or eggs)
- Hashimoto thyroiditis Thyroiditis: A progressive disease of the thyroid gland characterized by the presence of antibodies directed…
- Lesbianism Female homosexuality. Also called sapphism (after the lesbian poet Sappho)
- Parotids Salivary glands situated in front of the ears.