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Artemidorus
Artemidorus of Daldis. Greek physician who wrote Oneirocritica, a work dedicated to the interpretation of dreams, in the middle of the second century C.E. Artemidorus gathered evidence during interviews with thousands of people about their…
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Show more- Juvenile CML Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia. See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy See: Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle
- Fever, breakbone An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Arthritis, spondylitis A form of arthritis causing chronic inflammation of the spine
- Restriction site A sequence in DNA that can be recognized and cut by a specific restriction enzyme.
- Anorgasmia Failure to achieve orgasm (climax) during sexual intercourse. Anorgasmia can result from many causes…
- Reproductive cells The eggs and sperm are the reproductive cells. Each mature reproductive cell is haploid in that it has a…
- Cranial nerve VII The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge…
- Syringoma A benign (non-cancerous) skin tumor that derives from eccrine cells, specialized cells that are related to…
- Homicide 1. The killing of a person. 2. Strictly speaking, the killing of a man. femicide. From the Latin meaning…
- Lancet See: Lancing device.
- Bladder Any pouch or other flexible enclosure that can hold liquids or gases but usually refers to the hollow organ…