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Chin
Medically, the mentum. The lower portion of the face below the lower lip including the prominence of the lower jaw and the line of fusion of the two separate halves of the jawbone (mandible). This line of fusion (called the symphysis…
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- Clinical cytogenetics The application of chromosome studies to clinical medicine. For example, clinical cytogenetic testing is done…
- Modafinil Modafinil: An oral drug first approved by the FDA in 1998 for the treatment of narcolepsy, a condition in…
- Blot, Western A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely…
- ICU Intensive Care Unit.
- Anatomy in the Bible There are in the Bible but few direct references to the internal organs. Biblical poetry, however, abounds…
- Beriberi A syndrome characterized by inflammation of multiple nerves (polyneuritis), heart disease (cardiopathy), and…
- Superior vena cava syndrome Superior vena cava syndrome: The symptoms that result from compression of the large vein that carries blood…
- Ecstatic Pertaining to ecstasy, a state of rapture and trancelike elation
- Fireworks injury An injury from a device for producing a striking display by the combustion of explosive or flammable…
- Aspie Name that many people with Asperger syndrome call themselves