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Bottlefeeding
The use of a substitute for breast milk for feeding infants. Pediatricians generally advise exclusively breastfeeding (that is, breastfeeding with no formula) for all full term, healthy infants for the first 6 months of life. However, many…
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- Vestibulocochlear nerve A nerve that is responsible for the sense of hearing and which is also pertinent to balance, to the body…
- Deuteranomaly Colorblindness of the red-green type, also known as deuteranopia or Daltonism. The term 'Daltonism' is…
- Adrenal gland One of a pair of small glands, each of which sits on top of one of the kidneys. The adrenal is made up of an…
- Syndrome, giant platelet Nard-Soulier syndrome): This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the…
- Movement, saccadic See: Saccade
- Trauma Any injury, whether physically or emotionally inflicted. 'Trauma' has both a medical and a psychiatric…
- Basal temperature 1) Usually, a person's temperature on awakening in the morning. As changes in basal temperature accompany…
- Genome, dog See: Dog genome
- Camelpox A severe disease of camels in northern Africa and southwestern Asia caused by the camelpox virus. This virus…
- Osler's nodes These are small (the size of split peas), tender, transient nodules in the pads of fingers and toes and the…
- Bones, axial There are 80 axial bones, comprised of 29 bones in the head and 51 bones in the trunk