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Four-finger crease
See: Simian crease
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Show more- Pregnancy radiation exposure See: Prenatal radiation exposure
- Care, preoperative See: Preoperative care
- Gland, thyroid See: Thyroid gland
- Hair-on-end skull Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Kashin-Beck disease A disorder of the bones and joints of the hands and fingers, elbows, knees, and ankles of children and…
- Plague, bubonic The most common form of the plague named for the characteristic buboes which are enlarged lymph nodes…
- Gross anatomy The study of the form of structures that can be seen with the naked eye, as opposed to microscopic anatomy…
- Placental Pertaining to the placenta, the organ joining the mother and fetus during pregnancy
- QNS On a lab report, Quantity Not Sufficient. The sample is not large enough to do the test
- Stein-Leventhal syndrome A hormonal problem that causes women to have various symptoms, including irregular or no menstruation, acne…
- Nephrologist A medical specialist in nephrology (the study of the kidney or 'kidney-ology')
- Hyperostosis Overgrowth of bone. Hyperostosis is a nonspecific term that does not refer to any particular condition