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Food-insecure
Referring to the situation when people need to live with hunger and fear starvation
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Show more- Dilatation The process of enlargement or expansion. For example, dilatation of the eye is the process by which the pupil…
- Cardiac ventricle One of the two lower chambers of the heart. The right ventricle is the chamber that receives blood from the…
- PSA See: Primary sclerosing cholangitis.
- Ophthalmoplegia-plus syndrome See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Cation In chemistry, a positively charged ion. Pronounced cat-I-on. A cation is as opposed to an anion, which is a…
- Menetrier's disease See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Gonadotropin, human chorionic See: Human chorionic gonadotropin
- H. flu Haemophilus influenzae type B
- Elbow The juncture of the long bones in the middle portion of the arm. The bone of the upper arm (humerus) meets…
- Appendicitis Appendicitis: Inflammation of the appendix, the small worm-like projection from the first part of the colon…
- Acromioclavicular joint The acromioclavicular (AC) joint is located between the acromion (a projection of the scapula that forms the…
- Peripheral artery disease A form of peripheral vascular disease in which there is partial or total blockage of an artery, usually one…