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Show more- Obstetrical forceps An instrument with two blades and a handle designed to aid in the vaginal delivery of a baby. Forceps may be…
- Atelectasis Failure of full expansion of the lung at birth or a collapse thereafter of the lung. The word comes from the…
- Hydrops fetalis Gross edema (swelling), usually with anemia, of the fetus. It can be due to Rh blood group incompatibility…
- Mutism, akinetic A state in which a person is unspeaking (mute) and unmoving (akinetic). A textbook on clinical neurology…
- Lab result The result of a test done in a laboratory
- Cerebral Pertaining to the brain, the cerebrum or the intellect. The word 'cerebral' was borrowed directly from the…
- Cytogenetics The study of chromosomes, the visible carriers of DNA, the hereditary material. Cytogenetics is a fusion…
- Practice, family The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family…
- FAP Familial adenomatous polyposis, a prominent hereditary colon cancer syndrome
- Exogenous DNA DNA originating outside an organism
- Ultrasound Ultrasound: High-frequency sound waves. Ultrasound waves can be bounced off of tissues using special devices…
- Heptad repeat A type of tandem repeat sequence in which a group of seven aminoacids occurs many times in a protein…