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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Tapeworm, measly
Taenia solium
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Show more- Lateral X-ray An X-ray picture taken from the side
- X inactivation The phenomenon in a female by which one X chromosome (either the maternally or paternally derived X) is…
- Body cell mass The total mass of all the cellular elements in the body which constitute all the metabolically active tissue…
- APO-1 See: FAS gene
- Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Ammonia A colorless gas with a very sharp odor. Made both by humans and by nature, ammonia dissolves easily in water…
- Lesbianism Female homosexuality. Also called sapphism (after the lesbian poet Sappho)
- Mouth, trench See: Trench mouth
- Thoracic aneurysm A local widening and bulging of a vessel (an aneurysm) within the thorax (chest). See: Aortic aneurysm. An…
- Ectodermosis erosiva pluriorificialis See: Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
- Prostate cancer gene Prostate cancer gene: One of the genes that influences the origin and/or progression of prostate cancer…
- Syndrome, Wolfram See: Wolfram syndrome