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Insemination
The deposition of semen in the female reproductive tract. Under normal circumstances, the deposit is made within the vagina or the cervix (the opening to the uterus). By artificial means (such as intrauterine insemination), the deposit can…
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Show more- Lithotomy position Position in which the patient is on their back with the hips and knees flexed and the thighs apart. The…
- Dilator A device used to stretch or enlarge an opening. Patients with scarring of the muscular tube through which…
- Ligament, posterior cruciate The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Crease, single transverse palmar See: Simian crease
- Joint, knee The knee joint has three parts. The thigh bone (the femur) meets the large shin bone (the tibia) to form the…
- Pax3 One in a family of Pax genes involved in regulating embryonic development at the level of transcription. The…
- Sjogren-Larsson syndrome The Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical…
- Synapsis The side-by-side and point-by-point pairing of homologous chromosomes during meiosis
- Robust In statistics, a term applied to a test or procedure that is not seriously disturbed by violations of the…
- Random mating Totally haphazard mating with no regard to the genetic makeup (genotype) of the mate so that any sperm has an…
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome A form of congenital heart disease in which the whole left half of the heart (including the aorta , aortic…
- Patellar tendonopathy See: Patellar tendonitis