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Show more- Cowpox A mild skin disease of milk cows, principally confined to the udder and teats, that may be contracted by…
- Insufficiency, mitral See: Mitral insufficiency
- Leaded gasoline See: Tetraethyl lead
- Sprained ankle Sprained ankle: See: Ankle sprain.
- Valve, pulmonary One of the four valves in the heart, the pulmonary valve stands at the opening from the right ventricle in…
- Palate, soft The muscular part of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is directly behind the hard palate. It lacks bone…
- Membranous vitreous type Stickler syndrome Yndrome, type I. See: Stickler syndrome
- Extrinsic 1. Not an essential or inherent part of a something such as a structure.2. Coming from the outside. Extrinsic…
- Deafness, nonsyndromic A blood clot (thrombus) in a deep vein in the thigh or leg. The clot can break off as an embolus and make its…
- Shunt, Glenn See: Glenn shunt
- Debride To remove dead, contaminated or adherent tissue or foreign material. The purpose of wound debridement is to…
- Pediatric cystitis Bladder infection in a child. See: Urinary tract infection in children