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Temporal
1. Pertaining to time, limited in time, temporary, or transient.2. Pertaining to the temple region of the head. The temporal lobe of the brain is located beneath the temple. From the Latin tempus which means both time and the temple of the…
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- Audiometry The measurement of hearing.
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- Sclerokeratitis Inflammation of the sclera, the tough white coat that covers most of the back of the eyeball and that is…
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale A 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This scale is used to give an estimate of the…
- Paprika A spicy seasoning ground from a variety of sweet red pepper (Capsicum annuum), the original source of vitamin…
- Incontinence, fecal Inability to hold feces in the rectum. This is due to failure of voluntary control over the anal sphincters…
- Anomalad, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Drain, Jackson-Pratt See: JP drain
- Adrenal failure A condition in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough of the adrenal hormones that control important…
- MCAD Abbreviation for medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. See: MCAD deficiency
- Recessive, X-linked A gene on the X chromosome that expresses itself only when there is no different gene present at that locus…