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Lilliputian hallucination
An hallucination in which things, people, or animals seem smaller than they would be in real life. Lilliputian refers to the 'little people' who lived (fictionally) on the island of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's 1726 masterpiece Gulliver's…
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- Plasmodium The parasite guilty in the case of malaria (paludism). Plasmodium is a type of protozoa, a single-celled…
- Palate, hard The bony part of the roof of the mouth. The hard palate is just in front of the soft palate
- Stickler syndrome, type I See: Stickler syndrome
- Pulmonary valve One of the four valves in the heart, the pulmonary valve stands at the opening from the right ventricle in…
- Jenner's method The production of immunity to a disease by inoculation of an attenuated form of the virus causing the…
- Sex region Y A region on the Y chromosome that determines the sex of the individual. This region which goes by the symbol…
- Kinder-cam See: Kiddie cam
- Accessibility of services The ability to get medical care and services when needed
- Blister beetle A blister beetle is one of a number of beetles that have historically been used in dried or powdered form for…
- Acute kidney failure See: Acute renal failure
- Stewart See: Stewart, Alice