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Vision, tunnel
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Show more- Hiatal Pertaining to an hiatus, an opening. An hiatal hernia occurs when a part of the stomach protrudes through the…
- Enervation The act of enervating or the state of being enervated. See: Enervate
- Miner's asthma See: Black lung disease
- Dysfunction, orgasmic See: Anorgasmia
- Camelpox A severe disease of camels in northern Africa and southwestern Asia caused by the camelpox virus. This virus…
- Lizard bite Only two types of lizards are poisonous: the Gila monster that lives in Arizona and Mexico and the beaded…
- Syndrome, Edwards This is trisomy 18 syndrome. There are three instead of the normal two chromosomes #18. Children with this…
- Charcoal, activated See: Activated charcoal
- Hereditary essential tremor See: Essential tremor
- Exercise, passive Movement of the body, usually of the limbs, without effort by the patient. The patient is passive
- Page kidney Chronic longstanding compression of the kidney resulting in hypertension. The kidney is compressed, most…
- Incision A cut. When making an incision, a surgeon is making a cut.