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Machine, continuous passive motion machine
A machine used to help rehabilitate a limb (an arm or leg). The continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is attached to, for example, a knee that has had surgery. The CPM machine then constantly moves the knee through a range of motion for…
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- Nerve, glossopharyngeal The glossopharyngeal nerve is the ninth cranial nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Scrofula An old term for tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck. Also known as the King's evil
- Hump, dowager An outward curvature of the vertebrae of neck, creating a hump at the back of the neck, once thought to be a…
- Frequency, urinary Urinating too often, at too frequent intervals, not due to an unusually large volume of urine, but rather to…
- Vitamin therapy The use of vitamins to prevent or cure disease. Many physicians are now recognizing the beneficial uses of…
- Microtubule motor protein A protein that plays a role in spindle assembly and function or in chromosome movement during meiosis or…
- Shock, vasogenic Shock caused by widening of the blood vessels, usually from medication
- Gyrus A convolution on the surface of a cerebral hemisphere caused by the infolding of the cerebral cortex. The…
- Soothing Bringing comfort, solace, reassurance, peace, composure, quietude. To soothe is to allay, balm, becalm, calm…
- Histiocytosis, Hand-Schuller-Christian A disease in which histiocytes start to multiply and attack the tissues or organs of the patient. The disease…
- GJB2 A gene that provides instructions to make a protein called gap junction beta 2. Mutations in the GJB2 gene…