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Childhood
(1) The time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult. (2) The more circumscribed period of time from infancy to the onset of puberty. During childhood, the potential of a unique human person must be nurtured by parents or…
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- Gait A manner of walking. Observation of the gait can provide clues to a number of diagnoses including Parkinson…
- Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) A kind of laser eye surgery designed to change the shape of the cornea to eliminate (or reduce) the need for…
- OMS (World Health Organization) In medicine, the person who is ready to respond, the one on duty. As in "Who is the doctor on call this…
- Vertebral arch A circle of bone around the canal through which the spinal cord passes. A vertebral arch is composed of a…
- Syndrome, Patau Trisomy 13 syndrome or three chromosome number 13s instead of the normal two. Children with this condition…
- Weaver-Smith syndrome. See: Weaver syndrome
- Axial tomography, computerized Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Auricle 1. The principal projecting part of the ear. Also called the pinna.2. Something ear shaped such as the upper…
- TVS Abbreviation for 'transvaginal ultrasound,' a technique in which sound waves are sent out by an ultrasound…
- Tympanic cavity The major portion of the middle ear, consisting of a narrow air-filled cavity in the temporal bone that…
- Syndrome, superior vena cava The symptoms that result from compression of the large vein that carries blood down to the heart. The…