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Behavior center, moral
An area of the brain in what is known as the prefrontal cortex. Children who suffer damage before 16 months of age to the prefrontal cortex in the front of the brain tend later to display pathological behavior problems. From such cases, it…
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Show more- Menorrhagia Excessive uterine bleeding occurring at the expected intervals of the menstrual periods. The bleeding from…
- Block, caudal See Caudal anesthesia
- Pain, breast Pain in the breast or mammary gland, known medically as mastalgia. From the Greek masto-, breast + algos, pain
- Minimal residual disease Evidence for the presence of residual malignant cells, even when so few cancer cells are present that they…
- Vesicointestinal See: Vesicoenteric
- Sign, Gottron A scaly, patchy redness over the knuckles seen in patients with dermatomyositis, an inflammatory muscle…
- Neurofibromatosis, bilateral acoustic See: Neurofibromatosis type 2
- Snoreplasty, injection An injection of a chemical called sodium tetradecyl sulfate that promotes stiffening of the soft palate by…
- Myostatin A growth factor that regulates the size of muscles beginning in early embryonic development and continuing…
- Murray Valley encephalitis A viral encephalitis first recognized in the Murray Valley, in Victoria, Australia, caused by a flavivirus…
- Tocolytic Relating to the inhibition of labor, delaying or halting labor
- Alkaloid, vinca See: Vinca alkaloid