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Blastokinin
See: Uteroglobin
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Show more- Thyroid hormone A chemical substance made by the thyroid gland for export into the bloodstream. The thyroid gland needs…
- Petechiae Pinpoint flat round red spots under the skin surface caused by intradermal hemorrhage (bleeding into the…
- Coprolith See: Fecalith
- Mortality rate, infant The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…
- Disease, His Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart), this is a…
- Emergency department The department of a hospital responsible for the provision of medical and surgical care to patients arriving…
- DXM Dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant, sometimes misused as a recreational drug
- WBS Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome. See: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Opiate A medication or illegal drug that is either derived from the opium poppy, or that mimics the effect of an…
- Radial keratotomy An eye surgery procedure designed to flatten the cornea, reducing its optical power, to correct…
- Liver spot A pigmented flat spot on sun-exposed skin in older adults, especially on the back of the hands and on the…
- Germ cell tumor A tumor that arise from a germ cell. These tumors may arise within the gonads -- the ovary and testis. Most…