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Handedness
The preferential use of one hand for most fine manual tasks. Right handedness is the preferential use of the right hand while left handedness is the preferential use of the left hand for most fine manual tasks. Being able to use both hands…
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- German disease Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the…
- Urinary incontinence Urinary incontinence: The unintentional loss of urine. Inability to hold urine in the bladder due to loss of…
- Scapula The shoulder blade (or 'wingbone'), the familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. The word…
- Keratosis, seborrheic A benign skin disorder due to excessive growth of the top layer of skin cells, usually found in persons over…
- Public health school A school designed to teach public health and train public health professionals. The first school of public…
- Juvenile Between infantile and adult as, for example, in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (onset before age 16 years) and…
- Family, extended See: Extended family
- Prepuce The fold of skin that covers the head of the penis. Also known as the foreskin. Only about 1 in every 20 boys…
- Law, Hardy-Weinberg Basic concept in population genetics discovered independently in 1908 by the great English mathematician…
- Anti-reflux surgery (fundoplication) A surgical technique that strengthens the barrier to acid reflux when the lower esophageal sphincter does not…
- Central core disease See: Central core disease of muscle