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Gyrus, lingual
See: Lingual gyrus
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- Hemorrhagic Pertaining to bleeding or the abnormal flow of blood. The patient may have an internal hemorrhagic problem…
- Vessel A tube in the body that carries fluids: blood vessels or lymph vessels
- Juvenile chronic arthritis, systemic-onset See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Orchiopexy Surgery to bring down an undescended testicle
- MELAS syndrome MELAS syndrome: MELAS is the acronym for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like…
- Care, managed See: Managed care
- Humoralism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Aluminum toxicity See: Aluminum
- Vitreous type 2 Stickler syndrome Stickler syndrome, type II. See: Stickler syndrome
- TMA See Trimethylaminuri
- Sclerosis Localized hardening of skin