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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Hippocratic Oath
One of the oldest binding documents in history, the Oath written by Hippocrates is still held sacred by physicians: to treat the ill to the best of one's ability, to preserve a patient's privacy, to teach the secrets of medicine to the…
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- Congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens A condition in males when the tubes that carry sperm from the testes (the vas deferens) fail to develop…
- Mutagenesis The development and production of mutations in the genome
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome An overgrowth syndrome, whose clinical manifestations typically include macrosomia (large body size)…
- Late infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy See: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- XX The sex chromosome complement of a normal human female. See also X chromosome
- Homotrisomy Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…
- Nuchal translucency test A measurement of the size of the translucent space behind the neck of the fetus using ultrasound at between…
- Food-insecure Referring to the situation when people need to live with hunger and fear starvation
- Tophi The plural of tophus
- Post-traumatic stress disorder Stress disorder: A common anxiety disorder that develops after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in…
- Cholelithiasis 1. The presence of stones in the gallbladder or common bile duct. 2. The process of formation of such stones…