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Horripilation
Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of little muscles, as from cold, fear, or excitement. The chain of events leading to this skin change starts with a stimulus such as…
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Show more- Abscission To remove tissue by cutting it away, as in surgery
- Nodular Bumpy.
- Injury, needlestick See: Needlestick injury
- Cashew allergy Allergy: An allergic reaction to cashew nuts. Cashew allergy can be isolated, meaning that the individual is…
- Fever, breakbone An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Incidence The frequency with which something, such as a disease, appears in a particular population or area. In disease…
- OCP Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
- Macular vision The macula is a special area in the center of the retina, the light-sensitive layer of tissue at the back of…
- Clonic seizure A seizure in which there are generalized clonic contractions with the entire body jerking, but without a…
- Werner syndrome A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Kneecap The medical name for the kneecap is the patella. Whichever name -- kneecap or patella -- you prefer, it is…
- Efferent vessel A vessel carrying blood away from the heart. An artery or arteriole