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Phantom limb syndrome
The perception of sensations, usually including pain, in an arm or leg after the limb has been amputated. The brain still gets messages from the nerves that originally carried impulses from the missing limb. Phantom limb syndrome is…
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- Olfactory nerve A nerve that registers smells by carrying the impulses for the sense of smell from the nose to the brain…
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- Aberration (1) A deviation or irregularity. For example, a chromosome aberration is a deviation from the normal…
- Valley fever A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…
- Food, super Foods with alleged healing or health-promoting capabilities. The healing power of foods is a popular concept…
- Phalanx Anatomically, any one of the bones in the fingers or toes. (Plural: phalanges.) There are 3 phalanges (the…
- Test, visual acuity This test measures how well you see at various distances. It is the familiar eye chart test. The eye chart…
- Opening, vaginal The opening to the muscular canal extending from the cervix to the outside of the body. The word 'vagina' is…
- Taenia asiatica Taenia solium.