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Turbinate
A bone shaped like a top. The turbinate is a bone in the nose; it is an extension of the ethmoid bone, is situated along the side wall of the nose, and is covered by mucous membrane. The word turbinate is related to a turbine and tornado…
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- FAP Familial adenomatous polyposis, a prominent hereditary colon cancer syndrome
- Sundowning Also known as Sundown Syndrome, a term used to refer to behavioral changes that often occur in the late…
- Distichiasis Double rows of eyelashes. The extra eyelashes grow from glands called the Meibomian glands and may protrude…
- Cataract, nuclear A cataract that occurs in the center (the nucleus) of the lens. See: Cataract
- Phocomelia A congenital malformation (birth defect) in which the hands and feet are attached to abbreviated arms and…
- Leukemia, chronic phase of Leukemia, chronic phase of: A stage in which there are few blast cells in the blood or bone marrow, and few…
- SNCA The gene for alpha-synuclein
- Retinitis pigmentosa Any one of a large group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of the photoreceptors (the rods and…