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Drip
In medical usage, a drip is not a dull, unattractive person but a device for administering a fluid drop-by-drop into a vein. It is an intravenous (IV) fluid dripping into a vein, an intravenous fluid drip, a solution (usually a balanced…
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Show more- Scaling Abnormal shedding or accumulation of an upper layer of skin (the stratum corneum)
- Radiofrequency ablation Radiofrequency ablation: The use of electrodes to generate heat and destroy abnormal tissue. In…
- Vertebral compression fracture One of the last two ribs. A rib is said to be "vertebral" if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Secondary pulmonary arterial hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Five-day fever Fever: Also called trench fever, this is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the…
- STDs in men See sexually transmitted diseases in men.
- Rectocele Bulging of the front wall of the rectum into the vagina. Rectocele is due to weakening of the pelvic support…
- Hyperlexia The presence of advanced ability to read compared to the ability to understand spoken language. Children with…
- Pallidum Part of what are called the basal ganglia of the brain which consist of the globus pallidus and the ventral…
- Heart valves There are four heart valves. All are one-way valves. Blood entering the heart first passes through the…
- Turner-Kieser syndrome See Nail-patella syndrome
- Blindness, legal See: Legal blindness