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- SIDDT Sudden infant death with dysgenesis of testes. SIDDT was first identified in an Old Order Amish community in…
- Incest Sexual activity between individuals so closely related that marriage is prohibited. Incest involving a child…
- Opium An addictive narcotic drug derived from the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy. Preparations of opium were…
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- Labia, oral The lips around the mouth. See lip.
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