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Ear cleaning (yourself)
Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! Wax is not formed in the deep part of the ear canal near the eardrum, but only in the outer part of the canal. So when a patient has wax pushed up against the eardrum, it is often…
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Show more- Tactile Having to do with touch
- Cone dystrophy A disease of the cones, the specialized light-sensitive cells that act as photoreceptors in the retina of the…
- Distichiasis Double rows of eyelashes. The extra eyelashes grow from glands called the Meibomian glands and may protrude…
- Dural sac The membranous sac that encases the spinal cord within the bony structure of the vertebral column. Dural…
- Psychologist, clinical A professional specializing in diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain, emotional disturbance, and…
- Anogenital tract Angiogenital tract is a term used to refer to both the anus and genital tract. The genital tract encompasses…
- Deficiency, fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- Phosphate A form of phosphoric acid. Calcium phosphate makes bones and teeth hard.
- St. Louis encephalitis A disease caused by a virus (first observed in Illinois in 1932) transmitted from birds to the common Culex…
- Atrioventricular node The atrioventricular (AV) node is an electrical relay station between the atria (the upper) and the…
- Oswald Theodore Avery See: Avery, Oswald Theodore
- Ig Abbreviation for immunoglobulin, a protein produced by plasma cells and lymphocytes. Immunoglobulins are an…