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Antegrade amnesia
Amnesia in which the loss of memory relates to events that occur after a traumatic event. There is inability to recall new information. Old information can be recalled. Antegrade amnesia may follow brain trauma. Also called anterograde…
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Show more- Enate 1. As a noun, a relative on the mother's side. 2. As an adjective, related on the mother's side. As opposed…
- Oil, tropical Coconut, palm kernel or palm oil. Like all fats and oils, these three oils contain various types of fatty…
- Myometrium The muscular outer layer of the uterus.
- Polypectomy Removal of a polyp by surgery. In the case of polyps in the colon, polypectomy may be done by open abdominal…
- Scarlatina Also called scarlet fever, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria that occurs in a…
- Essential vulvodynia A chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the female external genital organs…
- Insufficiency, pancreatic See: Pancreatic insufficiency
- Gyneco- Combining form pertaining to women, as in gynecoid. From the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman
- Smoking, involuntary The involuntary inhaling of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by someone who is not smoking. See: ETS
- Neurectomy The removal of part or all of a nerve
- Ultrasound/Ultrasonography A test in which high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) are bounced off tissues and the echoes are converted…
- Exacerbate To make worse. For example, smoking may exacerbate systemic lupus erythematosus