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- Crutch A wooden or metal vertical prop that helps support a disabled person while he or she is walking. Crutches…
- Contact healing Another name for the alternative medicine practice of laying on of hands. See: Laying on of hands. See also…
- Wilson disease Women. A late 20th century creation. A feminist spelling to avoid the suffix men.
- Infiltrate To penetrate. If an IV infiltrates, the IV fluid penetrates the surrounding tissue.
- Delivery, footling There are single-footling or double-footling deliveries depending upon whether the presenting part of the…
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis Lung disease characterized by progressive difficulty breathing (dyspnea) and cough due to the accumulation of…
- Transforming principle Name originally given to DNA. In 1944 Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty published their discovery that the…
- Gluten enteropathy A condition, also called celiac sprue, in which the absorption of food nutrients through the small intestine…
- James Ramsay Hunt See: Ramsay Hunt, James
- Hydrogen cyanide See: Cyanide
- AFP (alpha-fetoprotein) AFP is a plasma protein that is normally produced by the fetus. It serves as the basis for some valuable…