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Mumps in pregnancy
Mumps vaccination is not recommended during or shortly before pregnancy because it is a live attenuated vaccine, and so carries a risk of causing mumps infection. When contracted in pregnancy, mumps can cause early miscarriage or birth…
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Show more- Caudad An anatomic term meaning 1. Pertaining to the tail or the hind part. 2. Situated in or directed toward the…
- Landry's ascending paralysis A particularly virulent form of Guillain-Barre syndrome. The disorder often begins with a flu-like illness…
- Neuron A nerve cell that sends and receives electrical signals over long distances within the body. A neuron may…
- RLQ Abbreviation for the right lower quadrant (quarter) of the abdomen. The RLQ of the abdomen contains the…
- Acid deposition A complex chemical and atmospheric phenomenon that occurs when emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and…
- Incontinentia pigmenti In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Estrogen/progestin therapy Abbreviated EPT. A combination of the hormones estrogen and progestin. Taken by women, the estrogen in the…
- Hypnopompic hallucination A vivid dreamlike hallucination that occurs as one is waking up. The opposite of an hypnagogic hallucination…
- Amenia Better known as amenorrhea, amenia is the absence or cessation of menstruation. Amenorrhea is conventionally…
- Ejaculatory duct A canal in the male formed by union of the vas deferens and the duct from the seminal vesicle. The…
- Randomized The use of chance alone to assign the participants in an experiment or trial to different groups in order to…
- CT scan CT scan: Computerized tomography scan. Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that…