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Arm
1. In popular usage, the appendage that extends from the shoulder to the hand. However, the medical definition refers to the upper extremity extending from the shoulder only to the elbow, excluding the forearm, which extends from the elbow…
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Show more- Affect The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the…
- Paternal 1. Pertaining to the father as, for example, a paternal age effect.2. Related through the father as, for…
- Poly1 isomerase An enzyme also known as Pin1. See: Pin1
- Interstice A small space between things, especially between things that are usually closely spaced, such as cells…
- Familial mental retardation 1 See FMR1.
- Mycobacterium intercellulare A slow-growing bacterium found in the soil and in dust particles that can cause the mycobacterium avian…
- Jejunum Part of the small intestine. It is half-way down the small intestine between its duodenum and ileum sections…
- Bulbar Pertaining to a bulb, in medicine any rounded mass of tissue (that is shaped somewhat like a crocus or tulip…
- Three day fever See: Sandfly fever
- PAPPA Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A
- Colpo- A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Pee An informal term for piss, meant to lessen its vulgarity, but synonymous with it