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ADR
Adverse drug reaction. See: Adverse reaction..
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- Corporeal Pertaining to the body of an organ or the entire body. The term also serves as a suffix, as in intracorporeal…
- Fetal circulation The blood circulation in the fetus before birth. Before birth, the blood from the heart headed for the lungs…
- Urinary tract infection Infection of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra. Not everyone with a UTI has symptoms. Common symptoms…
- Curare A muscle relaxant used in anesthesia (and, in the past, in arrow poisons by South American Indians). Curare…
- Eskalith See: Lithium
- Homogentisic acid oxidase deficiency Alkaptonuria
- Conduction system, cardiac The electrical conduction system that controls the heart rate. This system generates electrical impulses and…
- Gyri The plural of gyrus
- Lingelsheimia A group of bacteria named after W. von Lingelsheim. Now known as Acinetobacter. See: Acinetobacter
- Multiparous 1) Having two or more offspring at one birth. 2) Related to a multipara. See also uniparous.
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