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Cruciate ligament, posterior
The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint (collateral ligaments) as well as crossing within the joint (cruciate ligaments). These ligaments provide stability and strength…
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- Screening, newborn hearing Testing of the newborn baby's ability to hear. Newborn screening of hearing is done with automated auditory…
- Spinal cord The major column of nerve tissue that is connected to the brain and lies within the vertebral canal and from…
- Disease, His Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart), this is a…
- Chemokine One of a large group of proteins that act as lures and were first found attracting white blood cells. The…
- Botulinum toxin A toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that is the most poisonous biological substance…
- Registry Although a registry was originally the place (like Registry House in Edinburgh) where information was…
- Typhus, epidemic A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40° C (104° F), intractable headache, and a…
- Viremia The presence of a virus in the blood. Viremia is analogous to bacteremia (the presence of bacteria in the…
- Colpopexy The use of surgical-quality stitches to bring a displaced vagina back into position against the abdominal wall
- Flat feet A condition of the feet in which the arch of the instep is flattened and the entire sole touches the ground…