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Aromatherapy
A form of alternative and complimentary medicine based on the use of very concentrated 'essential' oils from the flowers, leaves, bark, branches, rind or roots of plants with purported healing properties. In aromatherapy these potent oils…
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Show more- Hepatic duct, right See: Right hepatic duct
- Growth differentiation factor 8 Also called myostatin. See: Myostatin
- International unit (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Metabolism, inborn error of A heritable disorder of the biochemistry of the4 body. Examples of inborn errors of metabolism include…
- Sarcoma One of a group of tumors usually arising from connective tissue. Most sarcomas are malignant. Many types are…
- OPV Oral polio vaccine. See Polio vaccine, oral
- Gallstone pancreatitis Pancreatitis: Gallstone-induced pancreatitis. Pancreatitis due to gallstones
- Pronucleus A cell nucleus with a haploid set of chromosomes (23 chromosomes in humans) resulting from meiosis (germ-cell…
- Urinary urgency An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…
- Histiocytosis, Hand-Schuller-Christian A disease in which histiocytes start to multiply and attack the tissues or organs of the patient. The disease…
- Ultrasound, endoscopic See: Endoscopic ultrasound
- Cancer, oat cell See: Oat cell cancer