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Supernumerary nipple
An extra nipple. Supernumerary nipples are usually smaller than normal and vestigial (nonfunctional, without accompanying mammary glands). They tend to occur on along a roughly curved line extending from near the armpit, through the center…
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- Idiopathy A disease or medical condition of unknown origin or which has no apparent cause. As in the idiopathy of…
- Myotonic dystrophy 2 See: Myotonic dystrophy type 2
- Brachial plexus >Avulsion, the most severe type, in which the nerve is torn from the spine; >Rupture, in which the nerve is…
- Disease, subclinical An illness that stays below the surface of clinical detection. A subclinical disease has no recognizable…
- Epiphysis The growth area near the end of a bone.
- Psychiatric Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention…
- Tympanites A hollow drum-like sound produced when a gas-containing cavity is tapped sharply. Tympanites is heard if the…
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA Morquio syndrome due to deficiency of the enzyme N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase. See also…
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy Cholecystectomy: Rem of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) by laparoscopy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is…
- Primary HIV infection The first few months after infection with HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus). During primary HIV…
- Pathophysiology Deranged function in an individual or an organ that is due to a disease. A pathophysiologic alteration is a…