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Cervical
Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the uterus. The word 'cervix' in Latin means 'neck'. That is why cervical vertebrae and cervical cancer involve quite disparate parts of the…
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Show more- Staff of Aesculapius A rod or stick with the snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios)…
- Vaccinia, fetal See Congenital vaccinia
- Syndrome, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the ability to stick adequately…
- Supraventricular tachycardia Abbreviated SVT. A regular, abnormally fast heart beat (tachycardia) caused by rapid firing of electrical…
- Cancer, male breast See: Breast cancer, male
- Exomphalos-macroglossia-gigantism syndrome See: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Enzyme replacement A strategy designed to replace missing enzyme activity in a patient. This strategy currently involves the…
- Anatomical snuffbox A hollow seen on the radial aspect (the thumbside) of the dorsum (the back) of the wrist when the thumb is…
- Pyrimidine One of the two classes of bases in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidine bases are thymine (T) and cytosine (C) in DNA…
- Mutation, nonsense A mutation (a change) in a base in the DNA that prematurely stops the translation (reading) of messenger RNA…
- Myalgia, epidemic Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Foreskin and glans, inflammation of the In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis…