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Rumination
1. Regurgitating food after a meal and then swallowing and digesting some of it. Cattle and other ruminant animals have a four-chambered stomach for the rumination of food and so can chew their cud. Some people, particularly infants…
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- Vital bodily function 1. An essential bodily function. 2. A key function for life. 3. A function required by most, if not all…
- Preoperative care Care given before surgery when physical and psychological preparations are made for the operation, according…
- STI Abbreviation for: 1. Sexually transmitted infection. 2. Soft tissue infection. 3. Systolic time interval
- Alagille syndrome Also known as arteriohepatic dysplasia, this is a genetic disorder characterized by jaundice in the newborn…
- Albuginea Tough white fibrous tissue. The tunica albuginea of the testis, for example, is the layer of dense whitish…
- Dystocia, placental See: Placental dystocia
- Discharge, nipple See: Breast discharge
- AML Acute myeloid leukemia 1 gene. See: Runx-1.
- Radiation therapy, conformational A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- Condition The term 'condition' has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: > >An unhealthy state, such…
- Hyperparathyroidism Hyperparathyroidism: Too much parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood…