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Hypospadias
A birth defect of the penis involving the urethra (the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body). The urethra normally travels in the male through the full length of the penis so that the stream of urine…
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Show more- Cell, totipotent A cell with the capacity to form an entire organism. Human development begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg…
- Elbow The juncture of the long bones in the middle portion of the arm. The bone of the upper arm (humerus) meets…
- Multipara, grand The term 'multipara' applies to any woman who has given birth 2 or more times. A woman who has given birth 5…
- Smoke, environmental tobacco Abbreviated ETS. See: ETS.
- Pediatric arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Skull The skull is a collection of bones which encase the brain and give form to the head and face. The bones of…
- Nonocular type Stickler syndrome Stickler syndrome, type III. See: Stickler syndrome
- Scaling Abnormal shedding or accumulation of an upper layer of skin (the stratum corneum)
- Thalassemia, alpha A blood disorder, thalassemia is not one disease but rather a group of disorders that have a single feature…
- CNP Copy number polymorphism
- Cryptic Hidden. Cryptic tonsillitis is hidden within the depths of the tonsil. From the Greek 'kryptos' meaning…
- Typhus, murine An acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder than, epidemic…