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Amnesia
Lack of memory. Amnesia after trauma can be antegrade or retrograde, depending upon whether the lack of memory relates to events occurring after or before the trauma. Amnesia is as compared to hypermnesia and hypomnesia. From a- + the…
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Show more- Magnesium deficiency Can occur due to inadequate intake or impaired intestinal absorption of magnesium. Low magnesium…
- Photophobia Painful oversensitivity to light. For example, there is photophobia in measles (rubeola). Keeping the lights…
- Wagner's syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Amini Amini, Fariborz
- Stem cell, sperm See: Sperm stem cell
- Amplification, DNA The production of multiple copies of a sequence of DNA. Repeated copying of a piece of DNA. DNA amplification…
- Diaphragmatic pacing See: Diaphragm pacing
- IRB Institutional Review Board
- Hospice A program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their…
- VACTERL association A nonrandom association of birth defects. VACTERL is an mnemonic in which the letters V, A, C, T, E, R, and L…
- Superficial spreading melanoma See: Melanoma, superficial spreading