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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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lamina basalis choroideae

Medical; Medicine

The transparent, nearly structureless inner layer of the choroid in contact with the pigmented layer of the retina.

dysbasia

Medical; Medicine

1. Difficulty in walking. 2. The difficult or distorted walking that occurs in people with certain mental disorders.

Corynebacterium xerosis

Medical; Medicine

A bacterial species found in normal and diseased conjunctiva; there is no evidence that this organism is pathogenic.

Gussenbauer suture

Medical; Medicine

A figure-of-8 suture for the intestine, resembling the Czerny-Lembert suture, but not including the mucous membrane.

basolateral

Medical; Medicine

Basal and lateral; specifically used to refer to one of the two major cytologic divisions of the amygdaloid complex.

Wohlfahrtia nuba

Medical; Medicine

A facultative fleshfly of Old World distribution, also found in head wounds or head cavities but not in dermal sores.

barbital

Medical; Medicine

A hypnotic and sedative; available as barbital sodium (soluble barbital), with the same uses; often used as a buffer.

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