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Cupping
1. A cup-shaped depression, as in the head of the optic nerve in the eye. 2. Treatment in which a cup is attached to the skin surface, usually on the back and the air within the cup is evacuated to suck the skin in and increase local blood…
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- Coke Street name for cocaine, the most potent stimulant of natural origin, a bitter addictive anesthetic (pain…
- Withdrawal symptoms Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that has the…
- Albumen The white of an egg, the part of the egg from which meringues are made. Albus in Latin is white. Not to be…
- Error, type II See: Error, beta
- Eyelid granulation See Blepharitis
- Fear of worms (parasitic) Feverish.
- Astigmatic Referring to astigmatism or a person with astigmatism, a common form of visual impairment in which part of an…
- Cancer registry A register designed to collect information about the occurrence (incidence) of cancer, the types of cancers…
- Squamous cell carcinoma in situ An early stage of skin cancer. Also known as Bowen's disease. This is a tumor that develops from the squamous…
- Proximal myotonic myopathy See: Myotonic dystrophy type 2
- PARK7 Familial Parkinson disease type 7