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SLV
Sapporo-like virus. See: Sapovirus
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Show more- Outlet, gastric See: Gastric outlet
- Transient insomnia See Insomnia, transient
- Stenosis, spinal See: Spinal stenosis
- Labile Labile: Unstable, unsteady, not fixed. In psychology or psychiatry, labile denotes free and uncontrolled…
- Hereford genome See: Bovine genome
- Thyrotropin A hormone produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain in response to signals from the…
- WDWN Abbreviation for 'well developed, well nourished' used by doctors as shorthand when jotting down the results…
- Alb- Prefix from the Latin 'albus' meaning 'white.' As in albino and albinism. The term 'albino' was first applied…
- Wagner syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Trichotillomania Compulsive hair pulling. A disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes…
- Pharmacopeia Also spelled pharmacopoeia, an official authoritative listing of drugs. Aspirin has, for example, long been…
- Quadriplegic Pertaining to quadriplegia (paralysis of all four limbs -- both arms and both legs), as from a high spinal…