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Peritoneal
Having to do with the peritoneum
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- Word deafness See: Auditory aphasia
- Caecum The caecum (also spelled cecum), the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the lower right quadrant…
- Beers list See: Beers criteria
- Maternal mortality rate The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number…
- Effusion, pleural See: Pleural effusion
- Two-animal rule A rule instituted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the licensing of agents directed against…
- Cell cloning The process of producing a group of cells (clones), all genetically identical, from a single ancestral cell.
- Cemento-ossifying fibroma A hard fibrous growth that continues to enlarge, sometimes to very significant size, unless treated, most…
- Aortic aneurysm An outpouching (a local widening) of the largest artery in the body, the aorta, involving that vessel in its…
- Cradlecam See: Kiddie cam
- Psychosomatic Relating to both the mind and the body or to the mind-body interrelationships. From the Greek words…