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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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Show more- Syndactyly A condition in which two or more of the fingers or toes are joined together. This joining can involve the…
- Food-secure Referring to the situation when people do not need to live with hunger or fear starvation
- Neural Having to do with nerve cells
- Glutamine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Glutamine is present in plant and animal proteins…
- Ab- Prefix meaning 'from, away from, off' as in abduction (movement of a limb away from the midline of the body)…
- Sebum An oily secretion of the sebaceous gland which helps to preserve the flexibility of the hair
- Tuberculosis, extrapulmonary Tuberculosis that occurs outside the lungs as, for example, in the lymph nodes or kidneys
- Climacteric 1. The menopause in women.2. The corresponding time in the life of men.From the Greek klimakter, meaning…
- Nicotine Nicotine: An alkaloid (a nitrogen-containing chemical) made by the tobacco plant or produced synthetically…
- Vaccination, children's See: DPT immunization.
- Cheilitis Inflammation of the lips or of a lip. Cheilitis can also be spelled chilitis. Angular cheilitis is…
- Gyrus A convolution on the surface of a cerebral hemisphere caused by the infolding of the cerebral cortex. The…