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Lip
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the opening of the mouth. The upper lip is separated from the nose by the philtrum, the area that lies between the base of the nose and the pigmented edge (called the vermillion border or the…
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- EPT Estrogen/progestin therapy
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- Low-grade lymphoma A lymphoma that tends to grow and spread slowly, in contrast to an intermediate- or high-grade lymphoma which…
- Xerophthalmia Dry eyes. Xerophthalmia can be associated with systemic diseases such as Sjogren' s syndrome, systemic lupus…
- PMD Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
- Surgery, retrograde intrarenal (RIRS) Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) is a procedure for doing surgery within the kidney using a viewing tube…
- Transport defect Within the body, many molecules are able to pass across the membranes that surround cells. These molecules…
- Amok A syndrome first reported in the Malay people, usually male, consisting of a period of brooding followed by a…
- Mohs surgery Mohs surgery: A special type of surgery used for the treatment of skin cancer, especially basal cell or…
- Paterfamilias The male head of the family; the father figure. Paterfamilias is the Latin for father of the household. It is…