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Pubarche
Just as menarche means the time when menstruation begins, pubarche indicates when pubic hair begins.
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- Placenta, accessory See: Accessory placenta
- Nephrectomy The surgical removal of a kidney. A nephrectomy can be radical, simple, or partial. The kidney, the adrenal…
- Beef tapeworm Taenia saginata, the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw…
- Plasticity, brain See Neuroplasticity
- Malrotation of the intestine Failure for the intestine to rotate normally during embryonic development. One of the dangers is that the…
- Ceps A combining form referring to the head. Derived from the Latin caput, meaning head. See also: Janiceps
- Apopain See: Caspase 3
- Glaucoma, low tension See: Glaucoma, normal tension
- Hypogeusia A reduced ability to taste things (to taste sweet, sour, bitter, or salty substances). Some people cannot…
- Genome, mitochondrial All of the genetic information contained in the chromosome of the mitochondrion, a structure located in the…