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WDWN
Abbreviation for 'well developed, well nourished' used by doctors as shorthand when jotting down the results of their physical examination. For example, a WDWNWF = well developed, well nourished white female; WDWNBF = well developed, well…
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- Recombinant tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator
- Plasma cell A type of white blood cell that produces and secretes antibodies. A plasma cell is a fully differentiated…
- Typhus, rat-flea See Typhus, murine
- Oesophagus Alternate spelling for esophagus. The British have an oesophagus while Americans have an esophagus. But on…
- EDMD Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- JIP Juvenile intestinal polyposis. See: Juvenile polyposis
- Ciliary body Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is…
- Thanatology The study of death and dying, including the medical, psychological, and sociologic aspects of it. Each…
- Heterochromatin, constitutive Heterochromatin that is fixed and irreversible. Regions of constitutive heterochromatin are located at very…
- Artic health Health in the vast geographic region widely surrounding the North Pole, an area that encompasses all or…
- Pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer: Malignancy of the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer has been called a 'silent' disease because…