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Bone, collar
A horizontal bone above the first rib that makes up the front part of the shoulder. The collarbone, also called the clavicle, links the sternum, or breastbone, with the scapula, a triangular bone in the back of the shoulder. The collarbone…
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- Intensity modulated radiation therapy IMRT. A type of three-dimensional radiation therapy that uses computer-generated images to match radiation to…
- Disease, Niemann-Pick See: Niemann-Pick disease
- Strabismus Strabismus: A condition in which the visual axes of the eyes are not parallel and the eyes appear to be…
- Femur The femur is the bone in the leg that extends from the hip to the knee. The femur constitutes the upper leg…
- Nephron A key unit, both anatomically and functionally, of the kidney.
- Transplantation genetics The field of biology and medicine relating to the genes that govern the acceptance or rejection of a…
- Supraventricular tachycardia Abbreviated SVT. A regular, abnormally fast heart beat (tachycardia) caused by rapid firing of electrical…
- Tick-borne disease >Babesiosis (a malaria-like infection) >Colorado tick fever (generally in the western US) >Ehrlichiosis >Lyme…
- Moniliasis, oral Yeast infection of the mouth and throat caused by a fungus formerly called Monilia, now known as Candida…
- Libido 1. Sexual drive. 2. In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy from all instinctive biological drives. Libido in…