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Little lady of Flores
The first skeleton, that of a diminuitive female, found on the Indonesian island of Flores belonging to a new human-like species -- Homo floresiensis
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- Insufficiency, pulmonary See: Pulmonary insufficiency
- Minimal residual disease Evidence for the presence of residual malignant cells, even when so few cancer cells are present that they…
- Pica A craving for something not normally regarded as nutritive. For example, dirt. Pica is a classic clue to iron…
- Gravid Pregnant
- Nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma See: Tylosis with esophageal cancer
- Journals, medical In 1665 the Royal Society in England published one of the first 2 scientific journals in the world: the…
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitor One of a potent class of medications used to treat depression. Abbreviated MAOI.
- Vocal cord, false See: False vocal cord
- Congenital deafness and retinitis pigmentosa (Also called Usher syndrome.) A genetic disorder characterized by hearing impairment and an eye disorder…
- Arthropathy Joint disease. The term arthropathy does not specify the type of joint disease. It might be osteoarthropathy…