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Fear of being buried alive
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- Multiple myeloma Multiple myeloma: A malignancy of plasma cells (a form of lymphocyte) that typically involves multiple sites…
- Reflex, Babinski An important neurologic test based, believe it or not, upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot…
- Soft chancre See: Chancroid
- Lipitor See: Atorvastatin
- Stomatitis, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Infarction The formation of an infarct, an area of tissue death due to a local lack of oxygen. For example, in a…
- Dys- Speech that is characteristically slurred, slow, and difficult to produce (difficult to understand). The…
- Reflex, patellar See: Knee jerk
- Synovia The joint fluid. The term synovia was invented in 1520 by the Swiss physician (and alchemist) Paracelsus who…
- Crotch A nonmedical term in common usage for the region where the legs come together, the place where the lower…