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| A wearing away of the upper layer of skin as a result of an applied friction force. |
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| Of abrupt onset, in reference to a disease. Acute often also refer to an illness that is of short duration, rapidly progressive, and in need of urgent care. |
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| Lack of development of something. (For example, agenesis of a toe means that a toe failed to form). |
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| In oncology, quickly growing, tending to spread rapidly. (For example, an aggresive tumor). |
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| Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. (Distance healing can include anything from therapeutic touch--in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields--to praying for people who are ill). |
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| 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 surgically removed). |
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| The long bone in the arm which extends from the shoulder to the elbow. |
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| A "lP" is a procedure whereby spinal fluid is removed from the spinal canal for the purpose of dianostic testing. |
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| A sound due to vibrations from the flow of blood through the heart or great vessels. A murmur may be innocent and be of no signiificance. Or it may be pathologic and reflect diasease. A murmur is usually heard with a stethoscope. |
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| Literally a knot, a node is a collection of tissue. (For example, a lymph node, is a collection of lymphoid tissue). |
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| An opening. (For example, the mouth is an orifice). |
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| Abbrevation meaning by mouth or orally (from the latin "per os", meaning by mouth). |
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| The kneecap by another name, the patella is the small bone that is in the front of the knee. |
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| Having to do with the lungs. |
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| A reaction that is involuntary. |
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| To move a body fluid, such as cerebrospinal fluid, from one place to another. 2)A catheter (tube) that carries cerebrospinal fluid from a ventricle in the brain to another area of the body. |
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| Atype of joint between the bones of the skull where the bones are held tightly together by fibrous tissue. 2)Thread-like material used to sew tissue together. 3)To stich a wound closed. |
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| The tissue by which a muscle attached to bone. |
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