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Typhoon
A regionally specific name for a strong tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline. Other terms for precisely the same type of storm include hurricane (in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east…
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- Herbal remedy A medication prepared from plants, including most of the world's traditional remedies for disease. Most…
- DHEA Dehydroepiandrosterone
- Congenital synostosis of cervicothoracic vertebrae See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Subscapularis muscle >The subscapularis muscle; >The supraspinatus muscle, which is responsible for elevating the arm and moving…
- Chromatography, gas (GC) A type of automated chromatography (a technique used to separate mixtures of substances) in which the mixture…
- Sickness, motion Motion sickness is a very common disturbance of the inner ear that is caused by repeated motion such as from…
- Bone, shin The larger of the two bones in the lower leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The shin bone is…
- Thromboembolism Formation in a blood vessel of a clot (thrombus) that breaks loose and is carried by the blood stream to plug…
- Venous line, central A catheter (tube) that is passed through a vein to end up in the thoracic (chest) portion of the vena cava…
- Gland, palpebral See: Meibomian gland
- Familial Parkinson disease type 9 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal recessive manner due to a gene on chromosome…