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- Recurrent Back again. A recurrent fever is a fever that has returned after an intermission: a recrudescent fever
- Peak expiratory flow Abbreviated PEF. The maximum airflow during a forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated. The…
- Corpse A dead body. The term corpse is more often used in in mystery stories than in medicine which, for obscure…
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome An overgrowth syndrome, whose clinical manifestations typically include macrosomia (large body size)…
- Stem cell One of the human body's master cells, with the ability to grow into any one of the body's more than 200 cell…
- Hormone,T4 Thyroxine