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Show more- Birth assistant See: Doula (the first meaning)
- Callosity Synonymous with callus. Both callus and callosity are derived from the Latin callum meaning thick skin
- ICD Implantable cardiac defibrillator, a device that is put within the body and is designed to recognize certain…
- Hereditary kidney cancer Kidney cancer due to a gene than can be transmitted from parent to child. The vast majority of kidney cancer…
- Virulent Extremely noxious, damaging, deleterious, disease-causing (pathogenic). Marked by a rapid, severe, and…
- Sputum The mucus and other matter brought up from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea that one may cough up and spit out…
- Placenta, low Location of the placenta in the lower part of the uterus (womb) so that the placenta partially or completely…
- Vanishing bone syndrome An inherited form of osteolysis -- the destruction of bone. There are several such syndromes. In one form of…
- Familial polyposis of colon, autosomal recessive See: MYH
- Tachycardia A rapid heart rate, usually defined as greater than 100 beats per minute. The tachycardias include sinus…
- Syndrome, toxic shock A grave condition occurring predominantly in menstruating women using tampons, toxic shock is characterized…
- Pathogenetic Pertaining to the pathogenesis of a disease, to exactly how it develops and the precise chain of events…