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- Benjamin Spock See: Spock, Benjamin
- Thermophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of heat, including hot weather and hot objects. Sufferers from thermophobia…
- Varicose vein A dilated (widened) tortuous (twisting) vein, usually involving a superficial vein in the leg, often…
- Syncope, micturition The temporary loss of consciousness upon urinating. (Syncope is the temporary loss of consciousness or, in…
- Anosmia No sense of smell, due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to develop. Loss of the sense of smell…
- Carcinoma in situ Cancer that involves only the place in which it began and that has not spread. Carcinoma in situ is an…
- Normoxia Normal levels of oxygen. From norm- (normal) + -ox- (oxygen) + -ia = a normal oxygen state.
- Appendix epididymis A small cystic projection from the surface of the epididymis which represents a remnant the embryologic…
- Arc eye A condition experienced by welders who do not use adequate eye protection. The intense ultraviolet light…
- RT 1. Respiratory therapist.2. Radiation therapy.3. Reverse transcriptase
- Fievre boutonneuse African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere, similar to Rocky…