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Burn, third degree
A burn in which the damage has progressed to the point of skin death. The skin is white and without sensation
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- Meningitis, tuberculous See: Tuberculous meningitis
- Pleonasm An excess in the number of parts or in the size of a growth. Pleonasm comes from a Greek word (pleonasmos)…
- Orgasmic dysfunction See: Anorgasmia
- Receptor 1. In cell biology, a structure on the surface of a cell (or inside a cell) that selectively receives and…
- Mortality rate, infant The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…
- VCU Voiding cystourethrography. Or voiding cystourethrogram
- Carotenemia Temporary yellowing of the skin due to excessive beta carotene in the diet. The offending substance, beta…
- Calculi, renal Kidney stones, by another name. A common cause of blood in the urine and pain in the abdomen, flank, or…
- Little lady of Flores The first skeleton, that of a diminuitive female, found on the Indonesian island of Flores belonging to a new…
- MCP1 Monocyte chemotactic protein-1, a member of the small inducible gene (SIG) family, plays a role in the…
- Genome, fruitfly See: Drosophila genome