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Accommodation
In medicine, the ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects (and vice versa). This process is achieved by the lens changing its shape. Accommodation is the adjustment of the optics of the eye to keep an object in…
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Show more- Resuscitate To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken
- Tumor marker Tumor markers are substances that can be detected in higher-than-normal amounts in the blood, urine, or body…
- Hemihypertrophy Asymmetric overgrowth (hypertrophy) of the skull, face, trunk, limbs, and/or digits, with or without visceral…
- Bar graph A visual display using bars to represent the relative size of different categories of a variable, with each…
- Vitamin D requirement The amount of vitamin D recommended per day, which varies according to the age of the individual…
- Bos taurus genome See: Bovine genome
- Allogeneic Taken from different individuals of the same species. Two or more individuals are said to be allogeneic to…
- Fire, St. Anthony's The intensely painful burning sensation in the limbs and extremities caused by ergot, the consequence of a…
- LFCN Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. See also: Meralgia paresthetica
- Social phobia Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating…
- Wolhynia fever Fever: Also known as trench fever, a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of…
- ACE2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2) An essential regulator of heart function. Also may be involved in the embryonic development of the heart. The…