Category: M
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Mental scotoma
Inability to comprehend or demonstrate insight into a highly emotional subject, also known as an “emotional blind spot”.
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Mendelsohn maneuver
A technique of swallowing that maintains voluntary muscular contraction for a few seconds at the highest position; used for management of swallowing disorders.
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Melanemesis
Vomitus with presence of blood in stomach contents due to bleeding ulcers.
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Melagra
Pain in the limbs from neurological sources.
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Melalgia
Pain in the limbs from muscular sources.
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Medullary rhythmicity area
Brain region that regulates breathing patterns.
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Mediastinal nodes
Lymph tissue in the anterior chest.
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Medial rectus muscle
Muscle that moves the eye toward the midline.
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Mastopexy
Plastic surgery performed to correct drooping breasts to improve their look and form. Correction of a pendulous breast by surgical fixation and plastic surgery. A surgical intervention performed to elevate a breast, which can be utilized on the contralateral breast to achieve a balanced and symmetrical appearance alongside a reconstructed breast.
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Masseter muscle
The muscle that closes the jaw and is used in chewing.