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Advanced maternal age
Usually defined as age 35 or more for the mother at the time of delivery of her baby. Advanced maternal age predisposes to Down syndrome (trisomy 21). The risk of having a Down syndrome baby rises with maternal age. It essentially doubles…
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Show more- Germinoma A type of germ cell tumor.
- Allopathic Pertaining to allopathy (conventional medicine). The term was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate…
- Prelingual Before the development of speech and language. 'She showed that in prelingually deaf people (that is, those…
- Inbreeding, coefficient of A measure of how close two people are genetically to each another. The coefficient of inbreeding, symbolized…
- Medication, clot-dissolving See: Thrombolytic agent
- Muscle cramp An involuntarily and forcibly contracted muscle that does not relax. When we use the muscles such as those of…
- Twelfth cranial nerve The hypoglossal nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, including the hypoglossal nerve, emerge from or enter the…
- Monosomy Missing one chromosome from a pair. For example, if a female has one X chromosome (X monosomy) rather than…
- Gyrus lingualis See: Lingual gyrus
- Pharynx The hollow tube about 5 inches long that starts behind the nose and ends at the top of the trachea (windpipe)…
- Facioauriculovertebral sequence See: Goldenhar syndrome
- Uvulitis Inflammation of the uvula