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Peccant
Unhealthy. Causing illness or disease. Peccant is one of those rarely used but apt words. The behaviors -- overeating, underexercising, an unhealthy diet -- that underlie so much disease today are peccant behaviors. '...the subtile parts…
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Show more- Lytic Suffix having to do with lysis (destruction), as in hemolytic anemia, the excessive destruction of red blood…
- Trimester The nine months of pregnancy is traditionally divided into three trimesters: distinct periods of roughly…
- Villus 1. A tiny finger-like or hair-like projection. 2. A small vascular protrusion.Villus is the Latin word for…
- Ultrasound, transvaginal A technique in which sound waves are sent out by an ultrasound probe that has been inserted in the vagina…
- Antithyroid drug A drug directed against the thyroid gland. The antithyroid drugs include carbimazole, methimazole, and…
- Septate vagina A vagina that is divided, usually longitudinally, to create a double vagina. This situation can be easily…
- Scleroconjunctival Pertaining to both the sclera and the conjunctiva. The sclera, a tough white outer coat that covers most of…
- Chloropicrin A riot control agent or 'tear gas.' See: Riot control agent poisoning
- Cleft uvula The uvula, the little V-shaped fleshy mass hanging from the back of the soft palate, is cleft. . Cleft uvula…
- Cancer, small cell lung A type of lung cancer in which the cells appear small and round under the microscope. Also called oat cell…
- Protein-losing enteropathy A condition in which there is excessive loss of plasma protein into the intestine. Protein-losing enteropathy…
- Guillain-Barre syndrome See: Guillain-Barré syndrome.