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Morton's foot
See: Morton's neuroma
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- Chromatin remodelling See: Chromatin remodeling
- Intersexual genitalia Genitalia that are neither typically female nor typically male. Known in clinical medicine as ambiguous…
- Shettles method A set of procedures proposed and popularized for sex selection by the gynecologist Landrum B. Shettles…
- M. leprae Mycobacterium leprae
- Nonsyndromic Not part of a syndrome. Hearing loss, for instance, can be syndromic or nonsyndromic
- Flow karyotyping Use of flow cytometry to analyze and/or separate chromosomes on the basis of their DNA content
- Osteoclasis The surgical destruction of bone tissue. Osteoclasis is performed to reconstruct a bone that is malformed…
- Dressler syndrome Pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium, the sac-like covering of the heart) after a heart attack…
- Keratitis Inflammation of the cornea (the transparent structure in the front of the eye).
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