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In American Sign Language, the combined use of speech, finger spelling, and signing to convey ideas to another person.  

A species that is the intermediate host of the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus.  

A genus of insects of the order Diptera that includes the black flies (buffalo gnats). The females are blood suckers.  

Any situation or device that imitates or recreates a condition or situation similar to one that might be encountered by a student or trainee. Simulations are used to prepare learners for social, occupational, or educational roles.  

At once or at the same time; term used in signature of prescription. Immediately, simultaneously; utilized in medical prescriptions.  

A procedure for quickly classifying injured patients according to the severity of their injuries and for treating those who are most severely injured first.  

An exaggerated lithotomy position in which the hips are somewhat elevated and the thighs are strongly abducted. It is used in operations on the vagina. The supine position with bent legs and thighs, raised hips, and widely separated thighs.  

The homeopathic doctrine that a drug producing pathological symptoms in those who are well will cure such symptoms in persons with disease.  

A crease on the palm of the hand, so termed because of its similarity to the transverse flexion crease found in some monkeys. Normally the palm of the hand at birth contains several flexion creases, two of which are separate and approx, transverse. When these two appear to fuse and thus form a single transverse…

An insect, Ctenolepisma longicaudata, whose scales are often found in house dust, are antigenic, and may be a cause of childhood and adult perennial allergies and asthma. This, house pest may be controlled with the use of insecticides.