Category: D

A sharp curve at the meeting point of the jejunum and duodenum. The duodenojejunal flexure hangs from the diaphragm by a thin muscle, the suspensory muscle of the diaphragm.  

Displacement of a finger bone. This occurs only at a joint. If there has been a crushing injury, it should be treated as a fracture until radiography has been performed. Dislocations of a finger usually are easily diagnosed and quite easily reduced. They may be caused by blows, falls, and similar accidents.  

Elevated body temperatures caused by the administration of a drug. Because fevers are more often caused by infections, rheumatological illnesses, or malignancies, the diagnosis of drug fever may be overlooked initially. Fever triggered by exposure to medications to which the individual has a heightened sensitivity.  

A bundle of association fibers connecting the frontal lobe with the occipital and temporal lobes of the brain.  

The fascia of the neck covering the muscles, vessels, and nerves.  

Fascia that covers structures below the skin, which is lined by superficial fascia.  

The eye to which a person unconsciously gives preference as a source of stimuli for visual sensations. The dominant eye is usually used in sighting down a gun or looking through a monocular microscope.  

An eye that has become adjusted for viewing objects in dim light; one adapted for scotopic, or rod, vision. Dark adaptation depends on the regeneration of rhodopsin, the light sensitive glycoprotein in the rods of the eye.    

The biochemical processes that determine which genes are actively transcribed and translated into mRNA and proteins in a cell and under what conditions.  

Two exposures on one photographic or radiographic film or image. Two overlapping exposures captured on a single film.