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Child abuse, physical
Child abuse, physical: Next to child neglect, physical abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse, accounting for 25% of all cases of child abuse. Physical child abuse is physical injury inflicted upon the child with…
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- Cholecystectomy Adding=0 width='100%' border=0> ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%'…
- Isodisomy Remarkable situation where both chromosomes in a pair are from one parent and neither from the other…
- HSA 1. In the US, Health Saving Account.2. Human serum albumin
- Code The genetic code is the correspondence between the triplet of bases in DNA with the amino acids. The…
- Hughlings Jackson See: Hughlings Jackson, John
- EUS Endoscopic ultrasound
- Disease, Hodgkin (Hodgkin lymphoma) A disease of the lymph nodes named after the English physician Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) who discovered it…
- CD95 See: FAS gene
- Endemic Present in a community at all times but in relatively low frequency. Something that is endemic is typically…
- Estrogen-associated hypercoagulability >esterified estrogens >esterified estrogens and methyltestosterone >estradiol >estrogens (conjugated) and…
- Alpha blocker A drug that blocks receptors in arteries and smooth muscle. This action relaxes the blood vessels and leads…