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Response, plantar
The plantar response, also known as the Babinski response, is an important neurologic examination based upon what the toes do when the sole (the plantar surface) of the foot is stroked. If the big toe goes up, that may mean trouble. The…
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- Coma Coma: A state of deep unarousable unconsciousness. Coma may occur as the result of numerous causes including…
- Amoxil See: Amoxicillin
- Lesbian Female homosexual. The name 'lesbian' comes from the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegian Sea where in…
- Cerebritis Inflammation of the brain
- Syndrome, Rendu-Osler-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Protocol, Bruce See: Bruce protocol
- Hughes Investigator See: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, extrapulmonary. See also: Tuberculous meningitis
- Bacillophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of bacilli (bacteria). A phobia is an unreasonable sort of fear that can…
- Stickler 1. Stickler, Gunnar B.. 2. Stickler syndrome. 3. With a small s, someone who insists upon some matter such as…
- Supernumerary digit An extra finger or toe