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Body fat monitor
See: Bioelectric impedance analysis
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Show more- Median The middle. Like the median strip in a highway.
- Alopecia, traumatic Hair loss caused by injury to the scalp. Traumatic alopecia is usually caused by grooming methods that…
- Moscati See: Moscati, St. Joseph
- Gesell Developmental Schedules A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell…
- Open cholecystectomy Cholecystectomy: Surgery in which the abdomen is opened to permit cholecystectomy -- removal of the…
- Watchful waiting Closely monitoring a patient's condition but withholding therapy until the sign and symptom appear or change…
- Bariatrics The field of medicine that offers treatment for the person who is overweight with a comprehensive program…
- Immunization, infectious hepatitis See Immunization, hepatitis A
- Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia Slowly progressive paralysis of certain eye muscles. Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia is…
- Septic bursitis A bursa is a closed fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface to reduce friction between tissues…
- Vaginitis Vaginitis: Inflammation of the vagina. The vagina is the muscular canal extending from the cervix to the…
- Radial >Pertaining to the radius, the smaller bone in the forearm. The radial artery is so named because of its…