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- Basal temperature 1) Usually, a person's temperature on awakening in the morning. As changes in basal temperature accompany…
- Potassium The major positive ion (cation) found inside of cells. The chemical notation for potassium is K+. The proper…
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Neuralgia, facial Severe pain, usually occurring in bursts, that emanates along the path of the trigeminal nerve. The…
- Radiation pneumonitis Inflammation of the lungs as a result of radiation. Although the radiation can be from various sources…
- Aphagia Inability to eat. From the Greek prefix 'a-' meaning 'not' + 'phago' meaning 'to eat' + not to eat.
- Cranial nerve, eleventh The eleventh cranial nerve is the accessory nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the accessory nerve included…
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia Acute promyelocytic leukemia: Commonly called APL, a malignancy of the bone marrow in which there is a…
- Aphasia, nominal See Anomia
- Mudslide injury See: Landslide injury
- Escherichia coli Full term for E. coli, the colon bacillus.