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The study of cells and their growth and division. Study of these factors has led to understanding of cancer cells and has been useful in developing chemotherapeutic methods.  

A kidney that has undergone cystic degeneration.  

The abnormally small kidney found in end-stage renal disease. The ultimate phase of chronic glomerulonephritis, arteriolar nephrosclerosis, or chronic pyelonephritis.  

Corneal ulcerations that accompany chlamydial infection of the conjuctiva.  

Keratinocytes that are grown in the laboratory so that a small biopsy sample from uninjured skin may grow as a sheet and expand to have a surface area 1,000 to 10,000 times the area of the sample. The sheet can be used to cover wounds such as burns. The culture technique requires 2 to 3…

The articulation or meeting place of the bony rib and its costal cartilage.  

The encapsulated, double synovial joints between the condylar processes of the mandible and the temporal bones of the cranium. The double synovial joints are separated by an articular disk and function as an upper gliding joint and a lower modified hinge or ginglymoid joint.  

The sound produced by forcible movement of a joint by contracting the muscles that contract or extend a joint, especially the metacarpophalangeal joints. The cause is not known.  

The union of the remainder of the tarsal bones with the calcaneus and talus.  

Water-soluble gel introduced into the vagina for the prevention of conception. It serves as a vehicle for spermicides.