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Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT)
A technique in which a woman's egg is fertilized outside the body, then implanted in one of her fallopian tubes. This technique is one of the methods used to overcome infertility, the inability of couples to produce offspring on their own…
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- Ketogenic diet A diet devised as a treatment for severe seizure disorders that do not respond to conventional medication…
- Gamete The sperm or the egg. Each human gamete normally has 23 chromosomes, the haploid number of chromosomes, half…
- Materia medica 1. The ingredients used to make medications, whether those be for medicine, homeopathy, herbal medicine, or…
- False vocal fold See: False vocal cord
- Masticate To chew, grind, or pulverize food (or something else) until it turns to pulp. From the Latin masticare, from…
- Shunt, triculoperitoneal A shunt that drains fluid from the cerebral ventricle into the abdomen.
- Adventitious Coming from an external source or occurring in an unusual place or manner. Not inherent, inherited or innate…
- Neurosis A chronic disorder featuring irritability of the nervous system (nervousness) and characterized by anxiety…
- Father (1) The male parent. (2) One who originates. For example, 'Wilhelm Roentgen is considered the father of…
- Hyperextensible Unusually capable of being extended and stretched. Hyperextensible skin is a feature of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase A liver enzyme known, for short, as AGXT. See: AGXT