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Sensitivity
1. In psychology, the quality of being sensitive. As, for example, sensitivity training, training in small groups to develop a sensitive awareness and understanding of oneself and of ones relationships with others. 2. In disease…
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Show more- Pulmonary tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, pulmonary.
- Proxy, health care A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives pertain to treatment…
- Bovine genome The genome of the cow (Bos taurus). The bovine genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans and other…
- Landslide injury Injury from a landslide or mudslide. A landslide is when masses of rock, earth, or debris move down a slope…
- Primary teeth The first teeth which are shed and replaced by permanent teeth. The first primary tooth comes in at about 6…
- Heritable Capable of being transmitted from parent to child.
- Fever, Q Quintan means recurring every 5 days, the characteristic duration of trench fever. Quintan or trench fever is…
- Macrogenitosomia Condition in which the external sex organs are prematurely enlarged or abnormally enlarged. In males, it is…
- C5 (cervical vertebra) The fifth cervical (neck) vertebra from the top
- Celsus (1st century A.D.) Aulus (Aurelius) Cornelius Celsus. Roman encyclopedist whose only surviving work, De…
- Spine 1) The column of bone known as the vertebral column, which surrounds and protects the spinal cord. The spine…
- Colorectal adenomatous polyposis, recessive Autosomal recessive form of colorectal adenomatous polyposis, See: MYH