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Phagedenic gingivitis
This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and…
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Show more- McKusick-Kaufman syndrome A genetic disorder in which there is build-up of fluids (called hydrometrocolpos) in the vagina and the…
- Lactobacillus A bacterium normally found in the mouth, intestinal tract, and vagina. Lactobacillus can also live in…
- Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A Abbreviated as PAPPA or PAPP-A. A large zinc-binding protein that acts as an enzyme, specifically a…
- Jewish penicillin Chicken soup. If not really a form of penicillin,' chicken soup may, in fact, have some therapeutic merit. A…
- Wind chill See: Round window.
- Prophylactic cranial irradiation Radiation therapy to the head intended to prevent cancer from spreading (metastasizing) to the brain.
- Osteoblastoma A benign tumor in bone tissue. Osteoblastomas are small, and are seen most frequently in children or young…
- Gallus gallus genome The genome of the Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of domestic chickens. See: Chicken genome
- Purpura, acute thrombocytopenic See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura.
- Isocellular Composed of cells of the same size and type. Isocellular is a Greek-Latin hybrid term compounded from the…
- Fibrofolliculomas, trichodiscomas and acrochordons See: Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
- Yard In length, 3 feet or 36 inches or, metrically, 91.44 centimeters. The yard, along with the foot and inch, are…