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Colostomy bag
A removable, disposable bag that attaches to the exterior opening of a colostomy (stoma) to permit sanitary collection and disposal of bodily wastes
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- Tobacco smoke, environmental Abbreviated ETS. See: ETS.
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- Parasomnia A sleep disorder in which odd or dangerous events occur that intrude on sleep. The parasomnias include sleep…
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…
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