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Hepar
The liver or a preparation made from it. The term hepar is not often used today. It is a direct borrowing of the Greek hepar, liver
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- Nominal aphasia See Anomia
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- Tick, Rocky Mountain wood See Rocky Mountain wood tick
- Tablet splitter A device for tablet splitting
- FBLN3 The gene encoding the protein known as fibulin 3. See: Fibulin 3
- Humoralism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
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