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Circumflex
Curved like a bow. In anatomy, circumflex describes a structure that bends around like a bow. For example, the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery. In linguistics, a circumflex is a caret-shaped mark (^) used over a vowel to…
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- Hansen's disease See: Hansen disease
- IFA Indirect immunofluorescence assay
- Radioinsensitive Not sensitive to X-rays and other forms of radiant energy. For example, a tumor may be radioinsensitive, and…
- Pruritus Itching. Pruritus can result from drug reaction, food allergy, kidney or liver disease, cancers, parasites…
- Tetraethylplumbane Tetraethyl lead
- Julius Axelrod See: Axelrod, Julius
- Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act T: See: HIPAA
- Pediatric urine infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Fusospirochetal gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Gland, prostate A gland within the male reproductive system that is located just below the bladder. Chestnut shaped, the…
- Radiation therapy, 3-D A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target it as…