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Skin tag
Skin tag: A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). Skin tags may appear on the skin almost anywhere although the favorite locales are the eyelids, neck, armpits (axillae), upper chest, and groin. Invariably benign, this tiny…
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Show more- Pseudoparalysis, spastic Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. CJD is believed to be due…
- Hyperthermia : Overheg of the body. This may be due to extreme weather conditions. Unrelieved hyperthermia can lead to…
- Apposition The word 'apposition' has several senses including the act of adding or accretion and also the putting of…
- Transposon A short mobile DNA sequence that can replicate and of which copies can be inserted at random sites within…
- Spectral karyotype (SKY) Karyotype(SKY): A visualization of all of the chromosomes in the genome all together with each chromosome…
- Grief, complicated See: Complicated grief
- Cardiovascular syncope Cardiovascular syncope: Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there…
- Cigar A small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking. The word 'cigar,' from the Spanish 'cigarro,' first appeared in…
- Adduction Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. The opposite of adduction is abduction. An adductor muscle…
- Vestibular apparatus The vestibule and three semicircular canals of the inner ear. Like an internal carpenter's level, these…
- Caliciviridae See: Calicivirus; Norovirus
- Septum, atrial The wall between the two upper chambers (the right and left atrium) of the heart