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To clear debris away, e.g., from the mouth during resuscitation.  

A slouched posture in which the pelvis is shifted forward and the thorax posteriorly. Lordosis occurs in the lower lumbar spinal region; a compensating reversal to kyphosis occurs in the upper lumbar and thoracic regions.  

A finger deformity marked by flexion of the distal interphalangeal joints and hyperextension of the proximal interphalangeal joints, often seen in rheumatoid arthritis.  

A condition in which blood in an infant’s stool reflects ingestion of maternal blood, either during delivery or during breastfeeding (from a bleeding nipple fissure).  

A dental tool or device used to shape silver amalgam or gold by applying pressure from different directions simultaneously.  

A buried (usually) continuous suture in which the needle is passed horizontally under the epidermis into the cutis vera, emerging at the edge of the wound but beneath the skin, then in a similar manner passed through the cutis vera of the opposite side of the wound, and so on until the other angle of…

The junction of the temporal and parietal bones.  

A suture between the squamous portion of the temporal bone and great wing of the sphenoid bone.  

A suture between the parietal bone and squamous portions of the temporal bone.  

An articulation of the great wing of the sphenoid with the squamous portion of the temporal bone.