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HMPS
Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome
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Show more- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome Abbreviated WHS. A chromosome disorder due to partial deletion of the short (p) arm of chromosome 4. It is…
- Peccant Unhealthy. Causing illness or disease. Peccant is one of those rarely used but apt words. The behaviors --…
- Sperm A sperm is the male 'gamete' or sex cell. It combines with the female 'gamete,' called an ovum, to form a…
- Uniparous 1) Having produced only one offspring. Also called primiparous. 2) Producing only one offspring at a time…
- Medicine, occupational The field of medicine encompassing diseases due to factors in the occupation of people. Occupational medicine…
- Psychodynamic medication See: Psychotropic medication
- Venipuncture The puncture of a vein with a needle to withdraw blood. Also called phlebotomy or, more often, a blood draw
- Anhidrosis Not sweating. From the Greek an- meaning a lack of + hidros meaning sweat = lack of sweat. The inability to…
- Shark attack >Always swim in a group. Sharks most often attack lone individuals. >Don't wander too far from shore. Doing…
- Elastin A protein that coil and recoils like a spring within the elastic fibers of connective tissue and accounts for…
- Abscess, perianal See: Perianal abscess
- Hemiplegic Pertaining to hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body.