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Pain, false labor
The pain associated with intermittent non-productive muscular contractions of the womb (uterus) during pregnancy, most commonly in the last two months before full term. These contractions are non-productive in the sense that they do not…
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- Quackery Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of…
- Transvaginal ultrasound A technique in which sound waves are sent out by an ultrasound probe that has been inserted in the vagina…
- Dicentric chromosome An abnormal chromosome with two centromeres rather than the normal one. Every normal chromosome has one…
- Diaphragmatic hernia Hernia: Passage of a loop of bowel through the diaphragm muscle. This type of hernia occurs as the bowel from…
- Glabella 1. The area between the eyebrows, just above the nose. 2. The corresponding area on the frontal bone between…
- Resting phase More appropriately called interphase. The interval in the cell cycle between two cell divisions when the…
- Agent, antimicrobial See: Antimicrobial agent
- Abs Commonly used slang for the abdominal muscles, the muscles running up and down in the abdominal wall. The…
- Cancer, leukemia Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Leukemias are grouped by how quickly the disease develops…
- Xanthoma tendinosum Xanthoma that clusters around tendons, and is associated with lipid disorders
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia A chronic lung disease of babies, which most commonly develops in the first 4 weeks after birth and most…