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Witch's milk
A folk term for the milk that often comes from the breast of a newborn baby. This temporary phenomenon is due to stimulation of the baby's breasts by the mother's hormones that cross the placenta during pregnancy. The ability of the baby's…
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Show more- DNA repair The body has a series of special enzymes to repair mutations (changes) in the DNA and restore the DNA to its…
- Xanthelasma Tiny (1-2 mm) yellowish plaques that are slightly raised on the skin surface of the upper or lower eyelids…
- Blade bone Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or wing bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Arm 1. In popular usage, the appendage that extends from the shoulder to the hand. However, the medical…
- Skin graft, split-thickness A graft technique in which sheets of skin containing the epidermis and part of the dermis are used
- Vesicatory A substance that causes tissue blistering. Also referred to as a vesicant
- Viral particle See: Virion
- Caesarian section, vaginal birth after It was once the rule that after a C-section, the next delivery also had to be by C-section. Now vaginal…
- Reduction division The first cell division in meiosis, the process by which germ cells are formed. A unique event in which the…
- Therapy, pulmonary Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Rabbit fever An infection in rabbits and other wild rodents caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that can be…
- Poliomyelitis An acute and sometimes devastating viral disease. Man is the only natural host for poliovirus. The virus…