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Choanal
Pertaining to the choana, the passageway from the back of one side of the nose to the throat. The choana is shaped like an inverted funnel which opens into the upper throat. The choanae must be open to permit breathing through the nose…
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Show more- Renal Having to do with the kidney. From the Latin renes (the kidneys), which gave the French les reins which mean…
- Extra systole See: Extrasystole
- Brainstem The lowest part of the brain which merges with the spinal cord and provides the major route by which the…
- Tummy 1. Babytalk for the stomach. The word tummy is derived from stomach.2. Slang for a paunch. A big tummy raises…
- Liver cancer, adult primary A tumor in which the cancer starts during adulthood in cells in the liver. Also called hepatocellular…
- Pharmacologic stress test Stress test: There are a diversity of pharmacologic stress tests. Here this refers specifically to a…
- Cerebellar ataxia with progressive dementia See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Lipoid nephrosis The earliest stage of nephrosis (the nephrotic syndrome of childhood). See: Minimal change disease. See also…
- Fetal pleural effusion In the fetus, excess fluid between the two membranes (the pleurae) that envelop the lungs. The pleural…
- Moraxella kingae See: Kingella kingae
- Study, cross-sectional A study done at one time, not over the course of time. A cross-sectional study a disease such as AIDS might…
- Shin bone fever Fever: Called shin bone fever because it characteristically causes fever and pain in the legs, this disease…