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Mucus colitis
A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions (motility) characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, mucous in stools, and irregular bowel habits with alternating diarrhea and constipation, symptoms…
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Show more- Suture See: SV40.
- Cataract surgery Cataract surgery: Removal of the clouded lens (the cataract) in its entirety by surgery, usually followed by…
- Louise Brown See: Brown, Louise.
- AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) Ankle-foot orthosis
- Myelin The fatty substance that covers and protects nerves. Myelin is a layered tissue that sheathes the axons…
- Hippocrates Rally credited with turning away from divine notions of medicine and using observation of the body as a basis…
- CXCR4 A chemokine receptor found on a wide variety of cells that serves as the coreceptor for HIV. HIV strains that…
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) The world's largest medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part of the National…
- Motor neuron disease A group of neurological diseases characterized by steadily progressive deterioration of the motor neurons in…
- Quiescence Inactivity, quietness. In cells, quiescence is the state of not dividing. In neurons (nerve cells)…
- Rotator cuff disease Rotator cuff disease: Damage to the rotator cuff, a group of four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint…
- Pinna The ear or, to be more precise, the part of the ear that projects like a little wing from the head. In Latin…