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Ganglion
Ganglion: The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130-201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex. Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies…
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- Cannonball pulse See: Pulse, water hammer
- Gingivitis, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Corporeal Pertaining to the body of an organ or the entire body. The term also serves as a suffix, as in intracorporeal…
- Silver poisoning Silver poisoning, medically termed argyria, causes ashen gray discoloration of the skin (and other tissues of…
- Abse, Dannie British pulmonary physician and poet. Abse was born in 1923 in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He studied…
- Dilatate To enlarge or expand. For example, to dilatate the eye is to enlarge the pupil temporarily with special…
- Aerosolization The production of an aerosol -- a fine mist or spray containing minute particles. See: Aerosol
- Mute A mute is a person who does not speak, either from an inability to speak or an unwillingness to speak. The…
- Syndrome, Jadassohn-Lewandowski This is a type of what is called pachyonychia congenita (elephant nails from birth). The characteristic…
- Neuronitis, vestibular See: Vestibular neuronitis
- Syndactyly, partial A condition in which fingers or toes are partially joined together. Syndactyly can involve the bones or just…