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Corn
A small calloused area of skin caused by local pressure irritating tissue over a bony prominence. Corns most commonly occur over a toe where they form what is referred to as a hard corn. Between the toes, pressure can form a soft corn of…
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- Focal Pertaining to a focus which in medicine may refer to:1. The point at which rays converge as, for example, in…
- Psychiatry The medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness…
- Malformation, congenital A physical defect present in a baby at birth, irrespective of whether the defect is caused by a genetic…
- Right ventricle The lower right chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and pumps it…
- Slanted ear An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Q arm of a chromosome The long arm of a chromosome. All human chromosomes have 2 arms -- a short arm and a long arm -- that are…
- Ultraviolet C One of the three types of invisible light rays (together with ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B) given off by…
- Cytosis 1. Suffix referring to cells, as in anisocytosis (inequality in the size of red blood cells), elliptocytosis…
- Peripheral vision Side vision. The ability to see objects and movement outside of the direct line of vision. Peripheral vision…