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Crutch
A wooden or metal vertical prop that helps support a disabled person while he or she is walking. Crutches extend from the walking surface to either the armpit or the arm. A typical hardwood armpit crutch has a 20-inch length of 1'x1' wood…
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Show more- Index, body mass (BMI) An index that relates body weight to height. The body mass index (BMI) is obtained by dividing a person's…
- Fat 1 Along with proteins and carbohydrates, one of the three nutrients used as energy sources by the body. The…
- Western blot A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely…
- Keloid Keloid: A scar that doesn't know when to stop. When the skin is injured, cells grow back to fill in the gap…
- Excisional Pertaining to the act of excision, of removal by surgery. An excisional biopsy is one in which the lesion is…
- Venomous 1. Full of venom. 2. Having venom, like some snakes and insects. 3. By extension, noxious, as a venomous…
- Sea poisoning An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Invert 1) To turn inward. To invert the foot is to move its forepart toward the midline of the body. 2) To turn…
- Slipped spine See: Spondylolisthesis
- Retrograde amnesia Amnesia in which the lack of memory relates to events that occurred before a traumatic event. Retrograde…
- Iodide The chemical form to which iodine in the diet is reduced before it is absorbed through the intestinal wall…
- Heatliness A characteristic of certain foods or other substances believed to cause emotional or physical reactions…