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Snoreplasty, injection
An injection of a chemical called sodium tetradecyl sulfate that promotes stiffening of the soft palate by creating scar tissue in order to relieve snoring. The soft palate is the area above your throat in the back of your mouth. Snoring…
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- Unit, international (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Food insecure When people must live with hunger and fear starvation
- Scurvy See: Scutellaria barbata.
- Scan, computerized axial tomography Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Pharmacopoeia An official authoritative listing of drugs. Aspirin has, for example, long been in the pharmacopoeia. By…
- PEEP Peeping tom (voyeurism) is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and…
- Seabather's itch An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Barotitis Middle ear problems due to changing atmospheric pressures, as when a plane descends to land. The problems…
- R-2 Street term for Rohypnol
- Ear, outer There are three sections of the ear. They are the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The outer ear…
- Meconium ileus Obstruction of the intestine (ileus) due to overly thick meconium, the dark sticky stuff that is normally…