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Prostate
A gland within the male reproductive system that is located just below the bladder. Chestnut shaped, the prostate surrounds the beginning of the urethra, the canal that empties the bladder. The prostate is actually not one but many glands…
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- Gene, evolutionarily conserved A gene that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. Conservation of a gene indicates that it…
- Stroma The supportive framework of an organ (or gland or other structure), usually composed of connective tissue…
- Diastole The time period when the heart is in a state of relaxation and dilatation (expansion). The final letter in…
- Lamina A plate or layer. For example, the lamina arcus vertebrae, usually just called the lamina, are plates of bone…
- Periodontics Periodontics is the branch of dentistry concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases…
- Recombinant A person with a new combination of genes, a combination of genes not present in either parent, due to…
- Hobbit Nickname for the Flores man (Homo floresiensis). Derived from the fictional race from J. R. R. Tolkien's…
- Scurvy See: Scutellaria barbata.
- Stokes Adams attack Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent…
- Chordae tendineae Thread-like bands of fibrous tissue which attach on one end to the edges of the tricuspid and mitral valves…
- Congenital brevicollis See: Klippel-Feil sequence