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Show more- Heart valves There are four heart valves. All are one-way valves. Blood entering the heart first passes through the…
- Lesion Pronounced 'lee-sion' with the emphasis on the 'lee,' a lesion can be almost any abnormality involving any…
- Electrophoretic Pertaining to electrophoresis, the separation of molecules according to their size and electrical charge by…
- Pneumosilicosis See: Silicosis
- Ciliary body melanoma See: Intraocular melanoma
- Malariology The study of malaria. Someone who is versed in malariology is a malariologist
- Sternutation Sneezing; the sound of sneezing. When we sneeze, air is expelled with force from the nose (and from the…
- Autonomic failure Malfunction of the autonomic nervous system due to imbalance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic…
- VCJD Stands for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as…
- Disease, hemolytic, of the newborn Abnormal breakup of red blood cells in the fetus or newborn.
- Lewis Thomas See: Thomas, Lewis
- Anatomy, Gray's See: Gray's Anatomy