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Show more- Laryngeal Having to do with the larynx (the voice box). NTER>
- Nasoenteral tube See: Nasogastric tube
- Unwell Not well or in good health, ailing, sick, indisposed. For example, 'I am well-nigh choked with the sulfurous…
- Spine 1) The column of bone known as the vertebral column, which surrounds and protects the spinal cord. The spine…
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome, complete A genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead…
- Spina bifida A birth defect (a congenital malformation) in which there is a bony defect in the vertebral column so that…
- Dystrophy, lattice See: Lattice dystrophy
- Focal Pertaining to a focus which in medicine may refer to:1. The point at which rays converge as, for example, in…
- PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- Valsalva maneuver A maneuver in which a person tries to exhale forcibly with a closed glottis (the windpipe) so that no air…
- BP1 Beta protein 1, a protein encoded by a member of the homeobox gene family, a group of genes important to…
- Cholelithiasis 1. The presence of stones in the gallbladder or common bile duct. 2. The process of formation of such stones…