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Fontanel (fontanelle)
The word fontanel comes from the French fontaine for fountain. The medical term fontanel is a 'soft spot' of the skull. The 'soft spot' is soft precisely because the cartilage there has not yet hardened into bone between the skull bones…
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- Long-term care facility A facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or…
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and…
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