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- Humidifier fever Fever: A form of sick building syndrome that usually develops on Monday or the first workday of the week. The…
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- Power of attorney, durable This is a type of advance medical directive in which legal documents provide the power of attorney to another…
- Hounsfield, Godfrey (1919-2004) British electrical engineer whose contributions to the creation of the computerized axial…
- Founder effect The positive effect on gene frequency when a population (a colony) has only a small number of original…
- Diving injury An injury incurred from diving into water that is too shallow or has hidden hazards. These injuries may be to…
- Specificity, analytic See: Analytic specificity
- Plague, sylvatic Plague that is spread by ground squirrels and other wild rodents, for example, in the western portion of the…
- Placenta praevia A placenta implanted near the outlet of the uterus, so that at the time of delivery the placenta precedes the…
- Deuteranopia Colorblindness of the red-green type, also known as deuteranomaly or Daltonism. The term 'Daltonism' is…