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Postmaturity
Overly mature, overly developed, especially as regards a baby. A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after the usual 9 months (280 days) of gestation. The gestation (length of the pregnancy) is calculated from the date of the last…
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Show more- Scale, Centigrade Thermometer scale in which the freezing point of water is 0°C and the boiling point of water at sea level is…
- Tongue cancer Cancer: Malignancy of the tongue; squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. Risk factors include smoking…
- Undulant fever An infectious disease due to the bacteria Brucella that characteristically causes rising and falling fevers…
- Failure, autonomic See: Autonomic failure
- Disease, Marburg Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending…
- Leukemia, myelogenous Condition in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells. Early symptoms include fatigue and night…
- Cholangiogram A radiologic procedure used to look at the gallbladder and bile ducts. See also: Intravenous cholangiogram.
- MiRNA Micro-RNA
- Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor See: Cox-2 inhibitor
- Aplasia Failure to develop. If something develops and then wastes away, that is atrophy.
- Pap test, ThinPrep A modified Pap test technique designed to reduce some of the technical problems inherent in the traditional…
- Spasms, infantile See: Infantile spasms