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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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fundus of eyeball

Medical; Medicine

The portion of the interior of the eyeball around the posterior pole, visible through the ophthalmoscope.

fourth lumbar nerve

Medical; Medicine

The ventral branch of the nerve is forked to enter into the formation of both lumbar and sacral plexuses.

Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Medical; Medicine

Thrombocytopenia and consumptive coagulopathy developing in a large hemangioma, usually in early infancy.

bacterioid

Medical; Medicine

1. Resembling bacteria. 2. Intracellular forms of Rhizobium spp. in the root nodules of leguminous plants.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Medical; Medicine

A bacterial species that causes tuberculosis in humans; it is the type species of the genus Mycobacterium.

sebaceous epithelioma

Medical; Medicine

A benign tumor of the sebaceous gland epithelium in which small basaloid or germinative cells predominate.

tubuloglomerular feedback

Medical; Medicine

A blood flow control mechanism operating in the kidneys that limits changes in glomerular filtration rate.

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