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- Medical school A school with a curriculum leading to a medical degree. The mission of every medical school includes medical…
- Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with…
- Coprolalia The excessive and uncontrollable use of foul or obscene language, including words related to feces (bowel…
- Carotenemia Temporary yellowing of the skin due to excessive beta carotene in the diet. The offending substance, beta…
- Macewen sign A sign to detect hydrocephalus and brain abscess. Percussion (tapping) on the skull at a particular spot…
- Genetic code The instructions in a gene that tell the cell how to make a specific protein. A, T, G, and C are the…
- Urethral opening, female The urethra is the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body. In females…
- Hypervolemia An abnormal increase in blood volume or, strictly speaking, an abnormal increase in the volume of blood…
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