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Street name for dextromethorphan (DXM)
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Show more- Pandiculation The act of stretching and yawning. (If you are in a public place, you might consider demonstrating the…
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a national resource…
- Manic-depressive disease See manic-depression
- Dyad The word 'dyad' comes from the Greek 'dyas' meaning the number two. In psychology, a dyad refers to a pair of…
- Complementary sequence Nucleic acid sequence of bases that can form a double- stranded structure by matching base pairs. For…
- Vision therapy The use of special eye exercises to address eye defects, such as strabismus. Some vision therapists also…
- PCP Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. A parasitic infection of the lungs that is particularly common and…
- Chekhov See: Chekhov, Anton
- Traction, orthopedic The use of a system of weights and pulleys to gradually change the position of a bone. It may be used in…
- Vulva The female external genital organs including the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, tiny glands called…
- Cancer of the labia See: Cancer of the vulva
- Cheiroarthropathy A syndrome of limited joint mobility that occurs in patients with diabetes. Cheiroarthropathy is…