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Blister, blood
A blister full of blood due to a pinch, bruise or repeated friction. A blister is medically termed a vesicle. One that is more than 5 mm in diameter with thin walls and is full of watery fluid is called a bulla or a bleb. The word…
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Show more- Prostatitis, acute bacterial Prostatitis, acute bacterial: Inflammation of the prostate gland of sudden (acute) onset due to bacterial…
- Belly pain Pain in the abdomen. See: Abdominal pain
- Round window The membrane separating the inner ear and middle ear. The tympanum (eardrum) separates the middle ear and…
- Adjacent Lying nearby. Related terms include superjacent, subjacent, and circumjacent. From ad-, near + the Latin…
- Cell, somatic See: Somatic cell
- Randomly In a random manner, as by chance alone. The participants in the trial were randomly assigned to receive…
- Intrastromal corneal ring A plastic ring designed to be implanted in the cornea, the transparent structure in the front of the eye. The…
- Computerized axial tomography scan Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Regimen With the accent on the first syllable (reg as in Reggie Jackson), a regimen is a plan, a regulated course…
- Postural Pertaining to the posture or position of the body, the attitude or carriage of the body as a whole, or the…
- Laminopathy A disease due to mutation of the lamin A/C gene. The laminopathies include: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy…
- Midgut volvulus See: Volvulus