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Subluxation of the radial head
See: Nursemaid's elbow
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- Shell egg An egg in a shell. See: Raw egg
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- Atrophy Wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is wasting of muscle, decrease in muscle mass. A nerve can also…
- Extension The process of straitening or the state of being strait. Extension of the hip and knee joints is necessary to…
- Heteromorphism Something different in form. Chromosome heteromorphisms are normal variations in the appearance of chromosomes
- Galeophobia An abnormally large and persistent fear of sharks. Sufferers from this phobia experience anxiety even though…
- Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst of Diabetes and Digestive Igestive and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Wilson disease Women. A late 20th century creation. A feminist spelling to avoid the suffix men.
- NCI (National Cancer Institute) The National Cancer Institute is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. The mission of…