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Miliary aneurysm
An aneurysm that is tiny like a millet seed. Miliary aneurysms tend to affect minute arteries in the brain and, in the eye, in the retina. One of the botanical borrowings by medicine, 'miliary' refers to the millet seed, millet being a…
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- Palate, cleft An opening in the roof of the mouth (the palate) due to a failure of the palatal shelves to come fully…
- Fat requirements, infant Fat in human milk provides 30%-35% of the total daily caloric needs for a growing infant. Manufacturers of…
- Birt Hogg Dube syndrome See: Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
- Section 1) In anatomy, a slice of tissue. A biopsy obtained by surgery is usually sectioned (sliced), and these…
- Fomentation A quaint old term for the application of hot packs or the substance so applied. From the Latin 'fovimentum'…
- Emergency contraception The prevention of pregnancy after unprotected vaginal intercourse. Emergency contraception may use drugs…
- Doraphobia An abnormal and persistent fear of fur. Sufferers of this fear avoid fur-bearing animals such as dogs, cats…
- Holandric inheritance Inheritance of genes on the Y chromosome. Since only males normally have a Y chromosome, Y-linked genes can…
- Copy number polymorphism Abbreviated CNP. A normal variation in DNA due to variation in the number of copies of a sequence within the…
- Molluscicide Synonymous with molluscacide and at least equally hard to say. See: Molluscacide
- Gallbladder absence This condition, also known as agenesis (failure of development) of the gallbladder, occurs in approximately…