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Acrochordon
A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). An acrochordon may appear on skin anywhere although the favorite locales are the eyelids, neck, armpits (axillae), upper chest, and groin. Invariably benign, this tiny tumor of the…
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- Intra-arterial pressure The pressure of the blood within an artery, the arterial pressure. Also called the arterial tension
- Primary dentition The set of 20 first (deciduous) teeth. The primary dentition is as opposed to the secondary (permanent)…
- Anesthetic, epidural An anesthetic injected into the epidural space surrounding the fluid-filled sac (the dura) around the spine…
- Tendo Achilles See: Achilles tendon
- Resistance, antibiotic The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand an antibiotic to which they were once sensitive…
- Alarm clock headache A relatively rare form of headache in which the patient is awakened from sleep at the same time every night…
- Muscle, heart A type of muscle with unique features only found in the heart. The heart or cardiac muscle is medically…
- Metatarsal One of the five cylindrical bones extending from the heel (the tarsus) to the toes on each foot. The…
- CC chemokine receptor 5 See: CCR5
- Chicken genome The genome of the Red Jungle Fowl, Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens, comprising about 1…
- Charles Darwin See: Darwin, Charles