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Spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury: Trauma or damage to the spinal cord, the major column of nerve tissue that is connected to the brain and lies within the vertebral canal and from which the spinal nerves emerge. The spinal cord and the brain constitute…
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Show more- STD Sexually transmitted disease
- BOD POD A method for determining the lean body mass. The BOD POD is a computerized, egg-shaped chamber. Using the…
- Alembic A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and…
- Colon cancer risk See: Colon cancer family history
- Thallium scan A method of examining the heart to obtain information about the blood supply to the heart muscle. In the…
- AK 1. Above the knee. 2. Acanthamoeba keratitis. 3. Actinic keratosis
- Hidrosis Sweating, the production of perspiration. Hidrosis is the Greek word for sweating
- Film Slang shortening of X-ray film, an X-ray, a radiograph
- Ear puncture Puncture of the ear drum may be due to an accident for example when something is stuck into the ear. Or it…
- Anterior cruciate injury A knee injury involving the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The ACL runs diagonally across the front of the…
- Pineocytoma An uncommon slow-growing tumor of the pineal gland. Symptoms include hydrocephalus, paralysis of upward gaze…
- Peromyscus leucopus See: White-footed mouse