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Lamina
A plate or layer. For example, the lamina arcus vertebrae, usually just called the lamina, are plates of bone in each vertebral body
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- Tocus Labor, childbirth. Directly from the Greek 'tokos' meaning childbirth
- Inversion, pericentric chromosome A basic type of chromosome rearrangement in which a segment that includes the centromere (and so is…
- Thyroid binding globulin A blood protein that binds with the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4).
- Typhus, scrub A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with…
- Gastric stapling A surgical procedure that converts the upper part of the stomach into a very small pouch by stapling portions…
- DX Medical abbreviation for diagnosis. See: dx
- Perchloric acid See: Perchlorate
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- Aortic atresia Congenital absence of the normal valvular opening from the left ventricle of the heart into the aorta…