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Occipital bone
The bone that forms the rear and the rear bottom of the skull. The occipital bone encloses a large oval hole called the foramen magnum that allows passage of the spinal cord. The occipital bone articulates (joins) with the parietal and…
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- QHC Qualified health claim
- R-2 Street term for Rohypnol
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- Polypectomy Removal of a polyp by surgery. In the case of polyps in the colon, polypectomy may be done by open abdominal…
- CWD Chronic wasting disease
- Alpha cell, pancreatic A type of cell in the pancreas (the organ of the digestive system located behind the stomach). Within the…
- Gyrus lingualis See: Lingual gyrus
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia Leukemia: Abbreviated JMML. A rare cancer of the myeloid cells in the bone marrow, accounting for less than…
- Dx Abbreviation standing for diagnosis, the determination of the nature of a disease. Dx may alternatively be…
- Protein C deficiency Protein C is a protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the formation…