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Common bile duct
The duct that carries bile from the gallbladder and liver into the duodenum (the upper part of the small intestine). The common bile duct is formed by the junction of the cystic duct that comes from the gallbladder and the common hepatic…
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- Anhedonia Loss of the capacity to experience pleasure. The inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable…
- Medication, antiviral An drug that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…
- Keratoplasty Corneal transplant.
- Phobia, social Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating…
- Palate, cleft An opening in the roof of the mouth (the palate) due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully…
- Essential tremor Uncontrollable shaking (tremor) of the hands and head and sometimes other parts of the body. Essential tremor…
- Fusospirillary gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- CTL Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte
- Genetic meltdown A genomic crisis due to an extraordinarily high rate of mutation, a phenomenon known to occur in viruses and…
- Pilonidal cyst A special kind of abscess that occurs in the cleft between the buttocks. Forms frequently in adolescence…
- Traumatic alopecia Hair loss caused by injury to the scalp. Traumatic alopecia is usually caused by grooming methods that…