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Plural of johnny
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Show more- Precancerous Pertaining to something that is not yet overtly cancerous, but appears to be on its way to becoming a cancer…
- Autophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of loneliness, of being alone. A fear of solitude. Sufferers from autophobia…
- Colposcopy Colposcopy: A procedure in which a gynecologist uses a lighted magnifying instrument which is called a…
- Tibia The larger of the two bones in the leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The tibia is familiarly known as…
- Chiron In Greek mythology, the centaur who, wounded by Hercules, invented medicine in order to heal himself. Chiron…
- Friend in dying See: Doula (the second meaning)
- Nanism Once known as dwarfism, this condition is now correctly called short stature.
- Thromboxane B2 The inactive product of thromboxane. Abbreviated TXB2
- Headache, alarm clock See: Alarm clock headache
- EDMD Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- TXA2 Thromboxane A2, the active form of thromboxane
- Innervate To supply with nerves. It is a little known fact that the cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the…