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Speckled iris
Due to little white (or lightly colored) spots that are slightly elevated on the surface of the iris. These spots, arranged in a ring concentric with the pupil, occur in normal children but are far more frequent in Down's syndrome (trisomy…
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Show more- Cigar A small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking. The word 'cigar,' from the Spanish 'cigarro,' first appeared in…
- Zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT) A technique in which a woman's egg is fertilized outside the body, then implanted in one of her fallopian…
- Fear of closed spaces Fear of closed spaces, of being closed in or being shut in as in elevators, tunnels, or any other small…
- Disease, Ritter This is the scalded skin syndrome, a potentially serious side effect of infection with the Staph…
- Ameba Also amoeba. A single-celled (protozoan) organism that constantly changes shape. The word 'ameba' is from the…
- Exercise treadmill Exercise on a treadmill, a machine with a moving strip on which one walks without moving forward. A treadmill…
- Gonadotropin, human chorionic See: Human chorionic gonadotropin
- Biomagnetic therapy See: Magnet therapy
- PNET Primitive neuroectodermal tumor. One of a remarkable group of tumors that originate in cells from the…
- Hypoglycemia Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar (glucose). When symptoms of hypoglycemia occur together with a documented blood…
- Anlage 1. In biology, whatever precedes something else. 2. In embryology, a precursor or forerunner or a more mature…
- Appendix epididymis A small cystic projection from the surface of the epididymis which represents a remnant the embryologic…