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Synesthesia
A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears…
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Show more- Prescription abbreviations A prescription, as is well known, is a physician's order for the preparation and administration of a drug or…
- Ergonomics The science of making things fit people instead of asking people to fit things. Ergonomics uses knowledge…
- XYY An extra Y chromosome in a male. See: XYY syndrome
- No show Term used in the US for a patient who missed an appointment. (In the UK, a patient who failed an appointment…
- Nominal aphasia See Anomia
- Chargaff ratios See: Chargaff rule
- Pinosome A tiny fluid-filled vesicle (bubble) within a cell. Pinosomes are created in the process of pinocytosis in…
- Hereditary essential tremor See: Essential tremor
- Gout, tophaceous A form of chronic gout whereby nodular masses of uric acid crystals (tophi) are deposited in different soft…
- Nerve, glossopharyngeal The glossopharyngeal nerve is the ninth cranial nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Endometrial hyperplasia A condition characterized by overgrowth of the lining of the uterus. Hyperplasia means overgrowth. The…
- Tapeworm, armed Taenia solium