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- Trypanosomiasis, African See: African sleeping sickness
- Inheritance, multifactorial The type of hereditary pattern seen when there is more than one genetic factor involved and, sometimes, when…
- Plyometrics Any exercise in which muscles are repeatedly and rapidly stretched ('loaded') and then contracted (as in…
- Thrombus A blood clot in a blood vessel or within the heart. From the Greek thrombos meaning a lump or clump, or a…
- Fixation, internal A surgical procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by mechanical devices…
- Diplopia, binocular Double vision (diplopia) that is only evident when looking through both eyes and disappears if one eye is…
- Laparotomy An operation to open the abdomen. The word 'laparotomy' was first used to designate this operation in 1878 by…
- Babinski reflex An important neurologic test based, believe it or not, upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot…
- Phlebotomus fever See: Sandfly fever
- Memory, recent Short-term memory. Also called working memory. Recent memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing…