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Straitjacket
Or strait-jacket or strait jacket. 1. A garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves the ends of which can be tied behind the back to restrain a violently disturbed person, as in a psychiatric in-patient unit, so that the person does not…
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- Latham bowl A blood-processing instrument that uses centrifugal force to separate blood into its components: red blood…
- Polyendocrinopathy syndrome, autoimmune A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Childhood liver cancer Primary cancer of the liver (cancer that starts in the liver) in children, a relatively rare malignancy in…
- Mitochondrial inheritance The inheritance of a trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome. Because of the oddities of mitochondria…
- Maternal age The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number…
- Vater, ampulla of See: Ampulla of Vater
- Afferent nerve A nerve that carries impulses toward the central nervous system (CNS). The opposite of an afferent nerve is…
- Regulatory gene A gene that regulates the expression of other genes. A regulatory gene is a nosy gene whose prime…
- Disease, Menetrier's See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Erosion An erosion is an eating away of a surface. ('Erodere' in Latin means to eat out.) For example, a skin erosion…
- Code, emergency While there is no formal definition for a 'Code,' doctors often use the term as slang to refer to a patient…