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Clubfoot
A common malformation of the foot that is evident at birth. The foot is turned in sharply so that the person seems to be walking on their ankle. The medical term for the common ('classic') type of clubfoot is talipes equinovarus. Clubfoot…
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- Aluminum A naturally occurring element that makes up about 8% of the surface of the earth and is always found combined…
- QT syndrome, long An inherited defect in the heart rhythm. In the US alone, it is estimated that 4,000 children and young…
- Linus Pauling See: Pauling, Linus
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA, an agency of the US government (under the Department of Labor) with the responsibility of ensuring…
- Bursa A closed fluid-filled sac that functions to provide a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues of…
- Corneal dystrophy, microcystic A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows dots (or microcysts)…
- Retinitis pigmentosa Any one of a large group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of the photoreceptors (the rods and…
- Pavlovian conditioning The Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1848-1936) conditioned dogs to respond in what proved to be a…
- Restitution In cytogenetics, the spontaneous rejoining of broken chromosomes to reconstitute the original chromosome…
- Belching A normal process to relieve distention from the air that accumulates in the stomach. The upper abdominal…