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Neuropsychologist
A psychologist who has completed special training in the neurobiological causes of brain disorders, and who specializes in diagnosing and treating these illnesses using a predominantly medical (as opposed to psychoanalytical) approach
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- Nasal septum The dividing wall within the nose. The nasal septum runs down the middle of the nose creating two sides to…
- Colonoscopy, virtual See: Virtual colonoscopy
- Hypoproteinemic hypertrophic gastropathy See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Vaccination, H. flu This immunization is designed to prevent disease due to Haemophilus influenzae (H. flu), specifically…
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
- ALS8 See: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8
- Body mass index A key index for relating a person's body weight to their height. The body mass index (BMI) is a person's…
- SCYA2 Small inducible cytokine A2. See: MPC1
- Randomly In a random manner, as by chance alone. The participants in the trial were randomly assigned to receive…
- Comminuted fracture A fracture in which bone is broken, splintered or crushed into a number of pieces. NTER> Note that…