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Nerve, twelfth cranial
See: Twelfth cranial nerve
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- Recurrent Back again. A recurrent fever is a fever that has returned after an intermission: a recrudescent fever
- Melanoma, choroidal Malignant melanoma that arises in the eye. See ocular melanoma
- Euphoria Elevated mood. Euphoria is a desirable and natural occurrence when it results from happy or exciting events…
- Urgency, urinary An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…
- Virus A microorganism smaller than a bacteria, which cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus…
- Conor and Bruch disease African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere similar to Rocky…
- Colorectal cancer family history See: Colon cancer family history
- Public Health Service, United States (USPHS) The agency responsible for the public health of the American people. The Public Health Service (PHS)…
- ATM Symbol for the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene. The protein made by the ATM gene functions to…
- Chronicity Characterized by long duration. The state of being chronic
- Herbicidal Capable of controlling or destroying plants, weeds, or grasses