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Rat, cotton
See: Cotton rat
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- Hepatitis, infectious See Hepatitis A
- BDD Body dysmorphic disorder
- Hex-A deficiency See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Postherpetic neuralgia Localized pain in the area of involvement of shingles that persists beyond one month. The most common…
- ENT 1. Abbreviation for ears, nose and throat. A field of medicine also called otolaryngology. 2. Abbreviation…
- Evolution, biologic Biologic evolution was contrasted with cultural (social) evolution in 1968 by A.G. Motulsky who pointed out…
- Pulmonary valve One of the four valves in the heart, the pulmonary valve stands at the opening from the right ventricle in…
- Hexenmilch See: Witch's milk
- Q.d. (on prescription) Seen on a prescription, q.d. (or qd) means one a day (from the Latin quaque die). The abbreviation is…
- Metapneumovirus See: Human metapneumovirus
- Plasmapheresis A procedure designed to deplete the body of blood plasma (the liquid part of the blood) without depleting the…