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- Vein, saphenous The saphenous veins -- there are two, the great and the small saphenous veins -- are the principal veins that…
- Panic A sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought or action. From the Greek woodland god Pan…
- Quasidominant Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who…
- Advance grief See: Anticipatory grief
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- Polypsis of the colon Multiple polyps with a high malignant potential in the large bowel. This hereditary condition is also known…
- Chiron In Greek mythology, the centaur who, wounded by Hercules, invented medicine in order to heal himself. Chiron…
- Atelectasis, primary See: Primary atelectasis
- Porcine Having to do with swine. From the Latin 'porcus' meaning 'pig.' Porcine insulin is obtained from pig…
- Macrobiotic Macrobiotic refers to the macrobiota, a region's living organisms (or flora and fauna) large enough to be…