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Show more- Pregnancy, tubal An ectopic pregnancy that takes place in the Fallopian tube. Tubal pregnancies are due to the inability of…
- Nail grooves See: Beau's lines
- Nocturia Excessive urinating at night.
- Penetrance The likelihood a given gene will result in disease. For example, if half (50%) of the people with the…
- Flu shot The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended annually (each year) for persons at high risk for serious…
- Generic 1. The chemical name of a drug. 2. A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Sudden infant death with dysgenesis of testes Abbreviated SIDDT. For more, see: SIDDT
- Indication 1. In medicine, a condition which makes a particular treatment or procedure advisable. CML (chronic myeloid…
- Lesbianism Female homosexuality. Also called sapphism (after the lesbian poet Sappho)
- Meralgia paresthetica Meralgia paresthetica: Entrapment or pinching of the nerve that supplies sensation to the outer portion of…
- Reproduction The production of offspring. Reproduction need not be sexual. Yeast can reproduce by budding
- Super- Prefix meaning meaning above, more than normal, or excessive. As in superaspirin, superbug, superjacent…