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Cardiac ventricle
One of the two lower chambers of the heart. The right ventricle is the chamber that receives blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the lungs via the pulmonary artery while the left ventricle is the chamber that receives blood from…
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- Epithelial Relating to the epithelium, the outside layer of cells that covers all the free, open surfaces of the body…
- Juvenile intestinal polyposis See: Juvenile polyposis
- Peritonitis, chronic Longstanding inflammation of the peritoneum, the membrane lining the inner wall of the abdomen and pelvis…
- Rat-flea typhus Murine typhus, an acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder…
- Femicide The killing of women. For example, AIDS in Africa has been termed 'mass femicide.' Femicide is in contrast to…
- Fracture, spiral A fracture, sometimes called a torsion fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart. NTER> A fracture is…
- Jenny Craig Jenny Craig is a diet program that originated in Australia in 1983 in Australia and started U.S. operations…
- Fovea centralis See: Fovea.
- Corneal dystrophy, epithelial basement A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows grayish fingerprint lines…
- Syndrome, Kawasaki A syndrome of unknown origin, mainly affecting young children, that causes fever, reddening of the eyes…
- Family, nuclear See: Nuclear family