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Aphagia
Inability to eat. From the Greek prefix 'a-' meaning 'not' + 'phago' meaning 'to eat' + not to eat.
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- Labia The lips, either the lips around the mouth (the oral labia) or the lip-like external female genitalia (the…
- Passive exercise Movement of the body, usually of the limbs, without effort by the patient. The patient is passive
- Gorham disease Also called disappearing bone disease. Extensive loss of calcium from a single bone so that it cannot be seen…
- Sinuous Curving in and out; in a serpentine, wavy form; winding. From the Latin noun 'sinus,' which means 'curve…
- Glossopharyngeal nerve The glossopharyngeal nerve is the ninth cranial nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Labor support professional See: Doula (the first meaning)
- Offspring The offspring are strictly speaking the progeny, or young, born to a person. In a larger sense, the offspring…
- Chimeraplasty A method of gene therapy based upon the use of a molecule called a chimeraplast, a synthetic blend of DNA and…
- Postpartum depression Postpartum depression: A form of severe depression after delivery that requires treatment. It is sometimes…
- Abortion, spontaneous A miscarriage, that is, any pregnancy that is not viable (the fetus cannot survive) or in which the fetus is…
- Plyometrics Any exercise in which muscles are repeatedly and rapidly stretched ('loaded') and then contracted (as in…