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Roofer's knee
See prepatellar bursitis.
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- Ventricular arrhythmias Abnormal rapid heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that originate in the lower chambers of the heart (the…
- Forearm The portion of the upper limb from the elbow to the wrist. In popular usage, the arm extends from the…
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- Acuity, visual The clarity or clearness of the vision, a measure of how well a person sees. The ability to distinguish…
- Sutton law See: Sutton's law
- Gland, sublingual See: Sublingual gland
- Mansfield, Peter British scientist (1933-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American…
- Therapy, grief See: Grief therapy
- Hallucination A profound distortion in a person's perception of reality, typically accompanied by a powerful sense of…