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Rossi counter
An instrument used to measure the energy deposited by radiation in microscopic sites such as cells. Named for its creator Harald H. Rossi (1917-2000), a radiobiophysicist who contributed much to our ability to measure minute amounts of…
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Show more- Deformation A setting of limits; a boundary; marking the limits of, delimiting; setting apart, separating. The word…
- Injure To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emotional sense. Treadmill machines may injure…
- Fireworks injury An injury from a device for producing a striking display by the combustion of explosive or flammable…
- Antidepressant, SSRI A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), one of the commonly prescribed drugs for treating…
- Dwarf Someone with dwarfism, which is now more correctly called short stature. People with dwarfism (short stature)…
- Plano In practical optics, a surface that has been worked flat
- Soft chancre See: Chancroid
- Palate The roof of the mouth. The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate)
- Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Chronic fatigue syndrome See: Chronic myelogenous leukemia.
- Syndrome, Duane See: Duane syndrome
- ICSI Jaundice. At least one medical dictionary defines icterus as the presence of jaundice seen in the sclera of…