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Acromioclavicular joint
The acromioclavicular (AC) joint is located between the acromion (a projection of the scapula that forms the point of the shoulder) and the clavicle (the collar bone). This is a gliding type of joint. The ligaments that serve to support…
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- Quaque die (on prescription) Seen on a prescription, qd (or, written with periods, q.d.) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The…
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- Incubation period In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Bones of the head There are 29 bones in the human head. They consist of 8 cranial bones, 14 facial bones, the hyoid bone, and 6…
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- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
- Cancer, colon A malignancy that arises from the inner lining of the colon. Most, if not all, of these cancers develop from…
- Nerve, first cranial The first cranial nerve is the olfactory nerve, the nerve that carries impulses for the sense of smell from…