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Intraoral
Within the mouth
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- Flu, Asian See: Asian flu
- Fornix vaginae See: Vaginal fornix
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- Hypoglycemic Relating to hypoglycemia, an abnormally low level of the sugar glucose in the blood, usually a complication…
- Cortical blindness Blindness due to loss or injury to the visual cortex, that section of the cerebral cortex responsible for…
- Yersinia pestis genome See: Plague bacterium genome
- In situ, carcinoma Cancer that involves only the place in which it began and has not spread. Carcinoma in situ is an early-stage…
- Vector, cloning A DNA molecule originating from a virus, a plasmid (see below) or the cell of a higher organism into which…
- Bone, zygomatic The bone that forms the prominence of the cheek. The zygomatic bone is also known as the zygoma, the…