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TAR syndrome
TAR stands for Thrombocytopenia (low blood platelets) and Aplasia (absence) of the Radius (the long bone on the thumb-side of the forearm), features characterizing this syndrome. There is phocomelia (flipper-limb) with the thumbs always…
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- Snort Take in a drug by inhalation. For example, snorting cocaine is inhaling cocaine powder through the nose where…
- Undulate To have a wavy border or form. Also, to rise and fall like a wave. For example, the border of a wound may…
- Viral Of or pertaining to a virus. For example, 'My daughter has a viral rash.
- Tropical typhus See Typhus, scrub
- Martorell syndrome Named after Fernando Martorell Otzet, Spanish cardiologist (1906-1984). In 1944 Martorell provided an…
- HUGO Acronym for the Human Genome Organisation, the international organization of scientists involved in the Human…
- Pap test A screening test for cervical cancer based on the examination under the microscope of cells collected from…
- Dreams Thoughts, visions, and other sensations that occupy the mind in sleep. Dreams occur during that part of sleep…
- Septate vagina A vagina that is divided, usually longitudinally, to create a double vagina. This situation can be easily…
- Extension The process of straitening or the state of being strait. Extension of the hip and knee joints is necessary to…
- Hounsfield 1. Godfrey Hounsfield, a key contributor to the creation of the CAT scanner.2. The unit measuring the…