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Oogonium
A female ancestral germ cell that divides several times to give rise to an oocyte that, in turn, develops into an ovum (an egg). The second 'o' in oogonium is pronounced separately from the first: o·o·gon·i·um. The word was created from…
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- Cancer of the vulva An uncommon cancer of women in which the malignancy is in the vulva, the outer part of the vagina, that…
- Mouse, deer See: Deer mouse
- Agent, antimicrobial See: Antimicrobial agent
- Osteotomy, displacement Surgical reconfiguration of a bone by changing its physical relationship to other bones
- Gout Gout: Condition characterized by abnormally elevated levels of uric acid in the blood, recurring attacks of…
- Jealousy, delusional See: Othello syndrome
- Oculomotor nerve The oculomotor nerve is the third cranial nerve. (The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the cranium, the…
- Karyokinesis During cell division, the process of partition of a cell's nucleus into the daughter cells. See also…
- Bottlefeeding The use of a substitute for breast milk for feeding infants. Pediatricians generally advise exclusively…
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease A disease that is virtually identical to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) but without a mutation in the…