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Orbit
In medicine, the bony cavity in which the eyeball sits together with its associated muscles, blood vessels, and nerves. The orbit is formed of parts of the ethmoid, frontal, lacrimal, nasal, palatine, sphenoid, and zygomatic bones and the…
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- Left-handed In popular usage, the leg extends from the top of the thigh down to the foot. However, in medical…
- Menstrually associated migraine See: Menstrual migraine
- Cranial nerve XI The eleventh cranial nerve is the accessory nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the accessory nerve included…
- Addison disease Addison disease: Long-term underfunction of the outer portion of the adrenal gland. In medical terms, chronic…
- Ames, Bruce N. American biochemist and geneticist (1928-) who developed the Ames test for chemical mutagens. Ames attended…
- Sick sinus syndrome Symptoms of dizziness, confusion, fainting, and heart failure due to a problem with the sinus node of the…
- Autopsy =4 cel ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%' bgColor=#ffffff>Our Autopsy Main…
- Forearm The portion of the upper limb from the elbow to the wrist. In popular usage, the arm extends from the…
- Epinephrine A substance produced by the medulla (inside) of the adrenal gland. The name epinephrine was coined in 1898 by…
- Disease, Conor and Bruch African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere similar to Rocky…
- Large-cell lymphoma A novel type of bacterium first isolated in Hong Kong in 2001 from the blood and empyema (pus in the chest)…