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- Orifice An opening. The mouth for example is an orifice.
- Trimester The nine months of pregnancy is traditionally divided into three trimesters: distinct periods of roughly…
- FXTAS Fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome
- Purpura, anaphylactoid See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Post-term infant An overly mature baby that has not been born until well after the usual term pregnancy. A post-term baby is…
- Child abuse, emotional Child abuse, emotional: Emotional child abuse is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse…
- Protein kinase A regulatory subunit 1-alpha See: PRKAR1A
- Blood, urinary Medically called hematuria, blood in the urine can be microscopic or gross. Evaluating hematuria requires…
- Urea breath test (UBT) The urea breath test (UBT) is a procedure for diagnosing the presence of a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H…
- Catamenia Menstruation