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Child neglect
Child neglect is the most frequently reported form of child abuse (60% of all cases) and the most lethal. Child neglect is the failure to provide for the shelter, safety, supervision and nutritional needs of the child. Child neglect may be…
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Show more- Gyno- Combining form pertaining to women. From the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman
- Multislice computed tomography See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Injection snoreplasty To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emotional sense. Treadmill machines may injure…
- Cyst, pilonidal A special kind of abscess that occurs in the cleft between the buttocks. Forms frequently in adolescence…
- H (drug caution code) Abbreviation standing for habitforming on a medication that indicates caution because the medication may…
- Sibling A brother or sister
- Photophobia Painful oversensitivity to light. For example, there is photophobia in measles (rubeola). Keeping the lights…
- Amusia The inability to recognize musical tones or to reproduce them. Amusia can be congenital (present at birth) or…
- Pallister-Killian syndrome A condition with multiple malformations at birth and mental retardation due to isochromosome 12p mosaicism…
- Melioidosis Melioidosis: An infectious illness, also called Whitmore's disease, that is most frequent in Southeast Asia…
- Insufficiency, mitral See: Mitral insufficiency
- Artic health Health in the vast geographic region widely surrounding the North Pole, an area that encompasses all or…