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Graft
Healthy skin, bone, or other tissue taken from one part of the body to replace diseased or injured tissue removed from another part of the body. For example, skin grafts can be used to cover areas of skin that have been burned or…
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Show more- Q_h (on prescription) If a medicine is to be taken every so- many hours, it is written 'q_h'; the 'q' standing for the Latin word…
- Wordprocessor's cramp A form of focal dystonia caused by wordprocessing that affects the muscles of the hand and, sometimes, the…
- Nerve, vestibulocochlear A nerve that is responsible for the sense of hearing and which is also pertinent to balance, to the body…
- MIC-1 Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1. A divergent member of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily…
- ICU Intensive Care Unit.
- Disease, Tsutsugamushi Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Cleidocranial dysostosis >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) A combination of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein. In autoimmune diseases, antibodies can form against…
- Therapy, grief See: Grief therapy
- National Academy of Sciences One of the National Academies. Created in 1863 by a congressional charter approved by President Abraham…
- Shock, spinal Shock caused by injury to the spinal cord
- Ague A fever (such as from malaria) that is marked by paroxysms of chills, fever, and sweating recurring regular…