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Youth violence
Violence involving young persons, typically children, adolescents, and young adults between the ages of 10 and 24. The young person can be the victim, the perpetrator, or both. Youth violence includes aggressive behaviors such as verbal…
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- Absolute neutrophil count The real number of white blood cells (WBCs) that are neutrophils. The absolute neutrophil count is commonly…
- Brachial plexus paralysis See: Brachial plexus palsy
- Doctors Without Borders A group which sends physicians and other health workers to some of the most destitute and dangerous parts of…
- Locomotion Movement from one place to another. And the ability to locomote, to get from one place to the next. The…
- Heights, fear of An irrational unreasonable fear of heights is called acrophobia. From the Greek 'acron', height + 'phobos'…
- Regenerate To reproduce or renew something lost. For example, after an injury, the liver has the capacity to regenerate
- Vampire children Perjorative term for children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Three-day fever See: Sandfly fever
- Macrobiotic Macrobiotic refers to the macrobiota, a region's living organisms (or flora and fauna) large enough to be…
- Vaccine, Sabin polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Cryoglobulin An abnormal blood protein that has the unusual properties of precipitating from the blood serum when it is…