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Oral aversion
Reluctance or refusal to feed or eat. A familiar example of oral aversion is a baby's refusal to breastfeed. Prolonged intravenous or nasogastric feeding may also contribute to the development of oral aversion
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- Aphasia, amnesic See Anomia
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- Heterokaryon A cell with two separate nuclei formed by the experimental fusion of two genetically different cells…
- Melena Stools or vomit stained black by blood pigment or dark blood products.
- Systemic mastocytosis A form of mastocytosis characterized by infiltrates of mast cells in the skin, lymph nodes, liver, spleen…
- Dormant tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, dormant. See also: Tuberculous meningitis.
- Care, postoperative See: Postoperative care
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- Intraoperative During surgery. Literally, within surgery. Intraoperative hemorrhage is bleeding during surgery
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