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Sex before sports
Sexual intercourse before an athletic event. A commonly held belief in sports is that athletes should not have intercourse before performing, lest it weaken them. This belief was not always held. In 77 AD, Pliny the Elder wrote to the…
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- Automated external defibrillator A device that automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and, if it detects a problem that may respond to an…
- Atrial fib Atrial fibrillation
- Ubidecarenone See: Coenzyme Q10
- Birth companion See: Doula (the first meaning)
- Genetic imprinting See Genomic imprinting
- Frigidity Failure of a female to respond to sexual stimulus; aversion on the part of a woman to sexual intercourse…
- Ear, slanted An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Mastoiditis Inflammation of the mastoid, often secondary to ear infection.
- Crossover study A type of clinical trial in which the study subjects receive each treatment in a random order. With this type…
- Epicondylitis Epicondylitis is an inflammation or damage to the area of an epicondyle of bone. An epicondyle is a…
- MCP Membrane cofactor protein. A ubiquitous protein on the surface of cells that regulates complement and is…