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Fetal surgery
The surgical treatment of the fetus before birth. Also called prenatal or antenatal surgery. Fetal surgery is done when the fetus is not expected to live long enough to make it through to delivery or to live long after birth unless fetal…
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- Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Fear of depths An abnormal and persistent fear of depths. Sufferers of this fear experience anxiety even though they realize…
- Infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast Breast: Infiltrating ductal carcinoma is one of several recognized specific patterns of cancer of the breast…
- Poikiloderma congenita Better known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
- Female urethral meatus The urethra is the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body. In females…
- Kinome A subset of the genome consisting of the protein kinase genes. The complete complement of over 500 protein…
- Laribacter hongkongensis A novel type of bacterium first isolated in Hong Kong in 2001 from the blood and empyema (pus in the chest)…
- Monocyte chemotactic and activating factor See: MPC1
- Vision, binocular See: Binocular vision
- Spock, Benjamin (1903-1998) American pediatrician whose book on 'Baby and Child Care' which first appeared in 1946 was one of…
- Collateral knee ligament, medial The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…