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Pathological hoarding
Excessive hoarding of material goods, a condition that affects up to 40% of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Excessive hoarders, who fill their houses with accumulations of junk, usually newspapers, bags of old clothing and…
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Show more- Vein, femoral See: Femoral vein
- Somnambulism A sleepwalker.
- Prominent vertebra The 7th cervical (neck) vertebra (C7) is sometimes called the prominent vertebra because of the length of its…
- Stenosis, aortic Narrowing (stenosis) of the heart valve between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta. This narrowing…
- Jugular vein, internal The deeper of the two jugular veins in the neck that drain blood from the head, brain, face and neck and…
- Sigmoidoscopy Inspection of the rectum and lower colon using a thin lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope. Samples of tissue…
- African-American See: African American
- Ectodermal Pertaining to the ectoderm or to tissues derived from the ectoderm, one of the three primary germ cell layers…
- Storm supplies kit The onshore rush of sea or lake water caused primarily by the high winds that are associated with a…
- NBCCS Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, also known as the Gorlin syndrome
- Musculus The Latin for muscle. Plural: musculi. In anatomy and many medical textbooks and dictionaries, the muscles…
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) An enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. ALT is released into blood when the liver or…