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Totipotent
Having unlimited capability. A totipotent cell has the capacity to form an entire organism. Human development begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg and creates a single totipotent cell. In the first hours after fertilization, this cell…
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- Syndactyly A condition in which two or more of the fingers or toes are joined together. This joining can involve the…
- Fainting (syncope) Fainting (syncope): Partial or complete loss of consciousness with interruption of awareness of oneself and…
- Hotel-Dieu A name often given to a hospital in France during the Middle Ages. Hotel-Dieu literally means the hotel (of)…
- Nuchal Referring to the back of the neck (nape). For example, nuchal rigidity is a stiff neck, sometimes a symptom…
- Pneuma The life-giving principle. According to the school of medicine in ancient Alexandria, life was associated…
- Psychiatric Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention…
- Lysenkoism A theory put forth by a Russian plant-breeder named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [1898-1976] during the…
- Anatomy, microscopic Known among medical students simply as 'micro', microscopic anatomy is the study of the form of normal…
- Acetylcholinesterase An enzyme that breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at the synaptic cleft (the space between two…