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Arrectores pilorum
Tiny muscles that act as the hair erector muscles. The arrectores pilorum play a key role in goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin The chain of events leading to this skin change starts with a stimulus such as cold or fear…
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Show more- VCU Voiding cystourethrography. Or voiding cystourethrogram
- Coccus A bacterial cell which has the shape of a sphere. Coccus enters into the name of a number of bacteria. For…
- Juncture In anatomy, a place where two or more structures join; a joint. From the Latin jungere, to join
- Reproductive cells The eggs and sperm are the reproductive cells. Each mature reproductive cell is haploid in that it has a…
- Naming diseases See: Disease nomenclature
- Deficiency, vitamin K A lack of vitamin K resulting in an increase in the clotting time of the blood, impaired clotting and a…
- Herpetiform virus A virus with the characteristic shape and behavior of a virus in the herpes family. Not all members of the…
- Electroretinogram Abbreviated ERG. An electroretinographic recording. See: Electroretinography
- Accessory neuropathy Disease of the accessory nerve which is the eleventh cranial nerve. The accessory nerve supplies the…
- Cubital tunnel The opening between the two heads of a muscle through which the ulnar nerve passes at the elbow and enters…
- Cancer, prostate Cancer of the gland that produces some of the components of semen fluid. Prostate cancer is the second…
- Spot, histo See: Histo spot