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ACL injury
See: Anterior cruciate injury
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- Pneumo- Prefix pertaining to breathing, respiration, the lungs, pneumonia, or air
- Amphetamine A drug with a stimulant effect on the central nervous system that can be both physically and psychologically…
- Tuberculosis, extrapulmonary Tuberculosis that occurs outside the lungs as, for example, in the lymph nodes or kidneys
- DR syndrome See: Okihiro syndrome
- Milk, witch's See Witch's milk.
- Factor X A laboratory-made agent similar to a normally existing substance in the body that stimulates the production…
- Lethal gene, zygotic A gene that is lethal (fatal) for the zygote, the cell formed by the union of a sperm (male sex cell) and an…
- Residual Something left behind. With residual disease, the disease has not been eradicated
- Urinary urgency An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…