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Eructation
Better known as burping or belching. Casting up wind (expelling air) from the stomach through the mouth
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- Birth cohort A group of people born during a particular period or year
- Fever, hemorrhagic A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and…
- BTE Behind-the-ear. See also: Behind-the-ear hearing aid
- Amnesia, retrograde See: Retrograde amnesia
- Fever with renal syndrome, hemorrhagic A set of diseases, also known as hemorrhagic fever, characterized by the abrupt onset of high fever and…
- Morning glory syndrome A birth defect of the optic nerve (the nerve to the eye) in which there is a coloboma (cleft) of the optic…
- Oscillating vision See: Oscillopsia
- Vocal cord, false See: False vocal cord
- Maculopathy, cellophane See: Macular pucker