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Show more- IVF In vitro fertilization, a laboratory procedure in which sperm are placed with an unfertilized egg in a Petri…
- Swallower In the drug trade, an individual used as a drug courier. Also called a body packer. See: Body packer
- Genome, mitochondrial All of the genetic information contained in the chromosome of the mitochondrion, a structure located in the…
- Sperm motility The percentage of all moving sperm in a semen sample. In a semen sample, 50% or more of the sperm should…
- Buschke disease See: Scleredema
- Lipomatosis, multiple symmetric A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper…
- Slanted ear An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Hypnopompic hallucination A vivid dreamlike hallucination that occurs as one is waking up. The opposite of an hypnagogic hallucination…
- Representational oligonucleotide microarray The production of offspring. Reproduction need not be sexual. Yeast can reproduce by budding.
- Body, ciliary Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is…
- Antimicrobial agent A general term for drugs, chemicals, or other substances that either kill or slow the growth of microbes…
- Gingivitis, acute membranous This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…