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Coprophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of feces (bowel waste). Sufferers of coprophobia experience anxiety even though they realize their fear is irrational. They go out of their way to avoid coming into contact with feces or sometimes even…
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Show more- Syndrome, Martin-Bell Better known as the fragile X syndrome, the most common heritable form of mental retardation. Fragile X…
- VDRL test A blood test for syphilis (VDRL stands for Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) that detects an antibody…
- Long-term memory A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Malattia leventinese An hereditary form of macular degeneration that results in progressive and irreversible visual loss. This…
- IDEC-Y2B8 monoclonal antibody See: Yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan
- Node, sentinel lymph The first lymph node ('gland') to receive lymphatic drainage from a tumor. Which lymph node is the sentinel…
- Nerves, cranial Nerves that emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from…
- Staging, laparoscopic See: Laparoscopic staging
- Periodontal The word 'periodontal' literally means 'around the tooth.' Periodontal diseases are bacterial infections that…
- Complementary medicine A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Nephrogenic rest A fragment of embryonic tissue in the kidney retained after the period of embryonic development. Nephrogenic…
- Pericentric chromosome inversion A basic type of chromosome rearrangement in which a segment that includes the centromere (and so is…