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Stickler's syndrome
See: Stickler syndrome
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- DCIS See Pendred syndrome.
- Bone, wing Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or blade bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Pauling, Linus The alpha helix, the structure of most proteins, discovered by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey. See: Alpha…
- Muscle, heart A type of muscle with unique features only found in the heart. The heart or cardiac muscle is medically…
- Orthodontic treatment (dental braces) Dental braces: The use of devices to move teeth or adjust underlying bone. The ideal age for starting…
- Syndrome, Rendu-Osler-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Pachymeninx The dura. From pachy- (thick) + -meninx (membrane). The plural is pachymeninges
- Chemosensory Pertaining to the sensing of chemicals, as by olfaction (the sense of smell). Diabetes and Parkinson's…
- Hemolytic Referring to hemolysis, the destruction of red blood cells which leads to the release of hemoglobin from…