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Exercise on a treadmill, a machine with a moving strip on which one walks without moving forward. A treadmill was originally a wide wheel turned by the weight of people climbing on steps around its edge, used in the past to provide power…
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- Two-faced twins Twin: Known medically as diprosopus, two-faced twins are conjoined twins (incompletely separated identical…
- Enervate 1. To remove part or all of a nerve, a procedure also called a neurectomy. 2. To lose nervous energy and feel…
- Adduction Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. The opposite of adduction is abduction. An adductor muscle…
- Aortic atresia Congenital absence of the normal valvular opening from the left ventricle of the heart into the aorta…
- Anastomosis The connection of normally separate parts or spaces so they intercommunicate. An anastomosis may be naturally…
- XY The most frequent sex chromosome complement in human males
- Anatomical position The position with the body erect with the arms at the sides and the palms forward. The anatomical position is…
- Yersinia pestis The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and later in the…
- Diverticulum, hypopharyngeal See: Zenker diverticulum
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy A technique for shattering stones such as kidney stones or gallstones with a shock wave produced outside the…
- Haemophilus influenzae type B This kind of immunization is designed to prevent diseases caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB), a…