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A reptile possessing scales and lacking limbs, external ears, and functional eyelids. In poisonous snakes, venom is produced in a poison gland, which is connected by a tube or groove to a poison fang, one of two sharp elongated teeth present in the upper jaw. In the U.S., the coral snake, copperhead, water moccasin (cottonmouth),…

A small mollusk having a spiral shell and belonging to the class Gastropoda. Snails are important as intermediate hosts of many species of parasitic flukes.  

A speech defect in which difficult consonants are omitted.  

Of some cancers, growing or progressing slowly.  

Damage to the respiratory tract (i.e., upper airway inflammation and swelling) as a result of inhaling hot gases that may contain toxic substances. Persons exposed to gases produced by burning materials are at risk of developing acute injury to their lungs, and, depending on the composition of the smoke and the duration of the exposure,…

A calcified mass in the smegma.  

Term describing an infant whose birth weight is at or below the 10th percentile, as correlated with the number of weeks in utero on the intrauterine growth chart. Small for gestational age (SGA) is a term employed to characterize newborns whose height or weight falls below the tenth percentile for their estimated gestational age. The…

A test used to assess the effects of tension on the neuromeningeal tract (e.g., in nerve root injury, meningeal irritation, meningitis, disk disease, or central nervous system tumors). The patient is directed to sit slumped forward, flexing the entire trunk. The patient’s foot is dorsiflexed and the knee is then extended. Inability to extend the…

Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or air pollution control facility.