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Repetitive stress injury
Stress injury: A type of injury from recurrent stress, often associated with the heavy use of computers. Stress in this context refers to an injury by overuse or improper use. One of the best-known repetitive stress injuries is the carpal…
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Show more- Oxygen A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 20% of the air we breathe (and at least half the…
- Reflex, patellar See: Knee jerk
- Aldrin and dieldrin A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and…
- Yttrium A rare elemental metal. A radioactive form of yttrium is used in radiation therapy and some types of…
- Sensipar Trade name for cinacalcet, a drug that acts as a calcimimetic. For more information, see: Calcimimetic
- Surgery, stereotactic Surgery in which a system of three- dimensional coordinates is used to locate the site to be operated on…
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- Intrauterine growth retardation A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Pollex The thumb. Pollex is derived from the Latin pollere, to be strong, because in a contest of strength the thumb…
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy One of a number of progressive neurodegenerative disorders in animals and humans caused by similar…
- Restriction endonuclease An enzyme from bacteria that can recognize specific base sequences in DNA and cut (restrict) the DNA at that…
- Tocus Labor, childbirth. Directly from the Greek 'tokos' meaning childbirth