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Trip-hammer pulse
See: Pulse, water hammer
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- Disease, chronic wasting See Chronic wasting disease
- Desiccate To remove the moisture from a thing that normally contains moisture, such as a plant; to dry out completely…
- H. heilmannii Abbreviation for Helicobacter heilmannii, a bacteria that infects most cats, dogs and pigs and, in them…
- Sting, jellyfish The injection into the skin of venom from the stinging unit (the nematocyst) of the jellyfish. The jellyfish…
- Withdrawal, penis A method of contraception, also called coitus interruptus, in which the man withdraws his penis from the…
- Deviation of the nasal septum Failure of the nasal septum to be in the center where it is supposed to be. (The nasal septum is the wall…
- Headache, migraine See migraine headache.
- Tumescent Swelling; slightly tumid (swollen). For example, tumescent liposuction involves pumping a solution beneath…
- Step therapy The practice of beginning drug therapy for a medical condition with the most cost-effective and safest drug…
- Vein, central retinal The blood vessel that carries blood away from the retina of the eye. The counterpart to the central retinal…
- Ovarian cancer gene BRCA2 Ovarian cancer gene BRCA2: Ovarian cancer due to mutation of the BRCA2 gene. Mutation of this gene also…