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Show more- Compound 118 Trade name of the insecticide aldrin. See: Aldrin and dieldrin
- Occipital bone The bone that forms the rear and the rear bottom of the skull. The occipital bone encloses a large oval hole…
- Noonan syndrome (NS) Noonan syndrome (NS): A multifaceted genetic disorder characterized by a series of birth defects (congenital…
- Facelift Although infrequent, the risks and complications of facelift surgery include: bleeding, hematoma, bruising…
- Obstetrics The art and science of managing pregnancy, labor and the puerperium (the time after delivery)
- Syndactyly, Poland A unique pattern of one- sided malformations characterized by a defect of the chest (pectoralis) muscle on…
- Hidrosis Sweating, the production of perspiration. Hidrosis is the Greek word for sweating
- Headache, febrile A headache associated with fever. Because this can sometimes indicate inflammation of the brain, as in…
- Syndrome, HDR The syndrome of familial Hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural Deafness, and Renal dysplasia. Inherited as an…
- Novercal Stepmotherly; pertaining to a stepmother. From the Latin novercalis, from noverca meaning stepmother
- Deficiency, sphingomyelinase Also called Niemann-Pick disease, this is a disorder of the metabolism of a lipid (fat) called sphingomyelin…
- WHI The Women's Health Initiative, a long-term health study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…