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Bed bug
A blood-sucking bug in the Cimex family that lives hidden in bedding or furniture, coming out at night to bite their victims
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- Breslow thickness A method for determining the prognosis with melanoma. The thickness of a melanoma is related to the 5-year…
- Valsalva maneuver A maneuver in which a person tries to exhale forcibly with a closed glottis (the windpipe) so that no air…
- Ventral A chamber of an organ. For example, the four connected cavities (hollow spaces) in the central portion of the…
- Muscle, cardiac A type of muscle with unique features only found in the heart. The cardiac muscle is the muscle of the heart…
- Syndrome, lipodystrophy A disturbance of lipid (fat) metabolism that involves the partial or total absence of fat and often the…
- Tuberculosis, dormant Tuberculosis, dormant: The presence of evidence for tuberculosis infection from a positive TB skin test in a…
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Blood clot Blood that has been converted from a liquid to a solid state. Also called a thrombus. The process by which a…
- Catabolism The energy-burning aspect of metabolism
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