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Breast biopsy
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Show more- Rehab Short for Rehabilitation
- Health, Saami See: Artic health
- Painful urination See: Dysuria
- Syndrome, Landau-Kleffner See Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Synthesis Putting together different entities to make a whole which is new and different. In biochemistry, synthesis…
- Carbo-loading An eating routine used by some athletes that involves downing large amounts of carbohydrates several days…
- Deficiency, hex-A See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Nose The external midline projection from the face. The purpose of the nose is to warm, clean, and humidify the…
- MMR Stands for the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine. The MMR vaccine is now given in two dosages. The first should…
- Microvascular Pertaining to the microvasculature, the portion of the vasculature of the body consisting of the smaller…
- Disease, Jakob's Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an…
- Tactile Having to do with touch