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Amygdaloid body
See: Amygdaloid nucleus
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- Alopecia, traumatic Hair loss caused by injury to the scalp. Traumatic alopecia is usually caused by grooming methods that…
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- Infection, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
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- L- Abbreviation for levorotatory, applied to a chemical compound, as in l-dopa. Levorotary is opposed to…
- Disease, Hirschsprung A congenital abnormality (birth defect) of the bowel in which there is absence of the ganglia (nerves) in the…
- Bug, reduviid See: Reduviid bug
- Proinflammatory Capable of promoting inflammation. For example, air pollution may have proinflammatory effects
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