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Show more- Lanugo Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair…
- Myopathy Any and all disease of muscle. Or any type of damage to muscle. There are many different kinds of myopathies…
- Nephrotoxic See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase.
- Oxygen A colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that makes up about 20% of the air we breathe (and at least half the…
- Anomic aphasia See Anomia
- Q_h (on prescription) If a medicine is to be taken every so- many hours, it is written 'q_h'; the 'q' standing for the Latin word…
- Scabies Scabies: Infestation of the skin by the human itch mite, Sarcaptes scabies. The initial symptom of scabies…
- Meningocele (MM) Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine and part of the spinal cord through a bone defect in the…
- D-IBS Diarrhea-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
- Anticipatory grief The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of…
- Smallpox vaccination antidote See Vaccinia immune globulin
- Cysticerci The plural of cysticercis. See: Cysticercus