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Bacteriology
The science and study of bacteria and their relation to medicine and to other areas such as agriculture (e.g., farm animals) and industry. Bacteria are single-celled microorganisms which can live as independent organisms or, dependently…
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Show more- Ear cleaning (yourself) Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear! Wax is not formed in the deep part of the ear canal…
- Hepatic vein One of the veins which drains blood from the liver
- Lymph gland See Lymph node
- Epilepsy, temporal lobe See: Epilepsy, temporal-lobe
- Skin calipers A simple method for determining the lean body mass. This method involves measuring the skinfold thickness of…
- Beta cell A type of cell in the pancreas. Within the pancreas, the beta cells are located in areas called the islets of…
- Laser surgery A type of surgery that uses the cutting power of a laser beam to make bloodless cuts in tissue or remove a…
- Sleep drug Any drug used to help sleep. Most prescription sleep drugs are sedative hypnotic agents. They include Valium…
- Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans The heart is reversed and is in the right side of the chest rather than in its normal location on the left…
- Operating room A facility equipped for performing surgery. Abbreviated OR
- Anterior tongue The front two-thirds of the tongue. In contrast to the base of the tongue, which is the back third. The…
- Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr. (1916-1995) American biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for work that helped explain the structure…