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Fear of new things
An irrational fear of anything new, of innovation, of new situations, places, or things. Also called neophobia. In animal behavior, neophobia refers to the tendency of an animal to avoid or retreat from an unfamiliar object or situation…
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- Diet, Mediterranean See: Mediterranean diet
- Anesthesia Loss of feeling or awareness. A general anesthetic puts the person to sleep. A local anesthetic causes loss…
- Cancer, bladder Cancer of the organ responsible for temporarily holding urine after it leaves the kidneys. The most common…
- Tuberculosis, drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) that does not respond to drug treatment. Drug-resistant TB has become a very serious…
- RFA Radiofrequency ablation
- Intussusception Intussusception: Telescoping (prolapse) of a portion of the intestine within another immediately adjacent…
- Public mourning The public display of grief. This may take many forms ranging from the very formal to the very informal, from…
- Banding of chromosomes The treatment of chromosomes to reveal characteristic patterns of horizontal bands like bar codes. The…
- Ultraviolet radiation Invisible rays that are part of the energy that comes from the sun. Ultraviolet radiation can burn the skin…
- Cranial nerve XII The twelfth cranial nerve is the hypoglossal nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the hypoglossal nerve…