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Amsler grid
While conducting an eye examination, the eye care professional may ask the patient to look at an Amsler grid. This grid is a pattern that resembles a checkerboard. The patient covers one eye and stares at a black dot in the center of the…
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- STD Sexually transmitted disease
- Imitrex Brand name for sumatriptan, a triptan drug for the treatment of migraine
- Sand-blind Partly blind, semi-blind, half-blind. From the Old English samblind from sam- meaning semi- + blind. In the…
- Scrub in To wash the hands and forearms very thoroughly, as for surgery. To scrub in implies the use of a brush (and…
- Glucocentric Focused on glucose, particularly to the exclusion of other factors. As in 'We have a body of evidence and the…
- Regulatory gene A gene that regulates the expression of other genes. A regulatory gene is a nosy gene whose prime…
- Erythroprosopalgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common…
- ADAMTS2 A gene that encodes a metalloproteinase enzyme. This enzyme is responsible for processing type I, type II…
- Vomitus Matter from the stomach that has come up into and may be ejected beyond the mouth, due to the act of…
- Anorgasmy Or anorgasmia. Failure of a male or female to achieve an orgasm (climax) during sexual intercourse…