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Retromingent
Urinating backwards. Also an animal such as a raccoon that urinates backwards. As in: 'You have revealed yourself as a miserable, carping, retromingent vigilante, and I for one am sick of wasting my time communicating with you' (Benjamin…
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- Congenital ptosis of the eyelids Drooping of the upper eyelids at birth. The lids may droop only slightly or they may cover the pupils and…
- Helmet, bicycle A well-known but often neglected device designed to protect the head of a bicyclist. Helmets decrease the…
- Seizure, partial See: Partial seizure
- Xanthoma, disseminatum A type of xanthoma characterized by orange-to-brown nodules on the skin or mucus membranes
- Pee An informal term for piss, meant to lessen its vulgarity, but synonymous with it
- Myoglobin The pigment in muscle that carries oxygen.
- JAK3 Or Jak3. An enzyme found only in cells in the immune system that is critical for the cell signaling process…
- Rheumatic fever An illness that occurs following a streptococcus infection (such as a 'strep throat') or scarlet fever and…
- DPT Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus vaccine. Today the more frequent abbreviation is DTP (for…