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Referring to the testes.  

A short examination to see if a sample is healthy or if part of the body is working well. A systematic form or procedure designed to measure or assess some ability, skill, aspect, or characteristic of a person, such as medical tests and various educational and psychological tests. Tests come in a sometimes bewildering variety…

Highly specialised treatment given in a health care centre, often using very advanced technology.  

A type of malaria where the fever returns every two days. The name applied to that type of malaria in which the fever reappears every other day.  

Referring to a fever with symptoms which appear every other day.  

Very ill and about to die.  

An illness from which someone will soon die.  

The end part of a neurone which is linked to a muscle.  

An antihistamine used in the treatment of hay fever and urticaria. Antihistamine used in the treatment of allergy and rhinitis. Side effects include dry mouth, dizziness, and rarely, cardiac arrhythmias. This drug should not be given concomitantly with the antibiotic erythromycin because of an increased risk of heart rhythm problems. An antihistamine medication employed to…

One of two shoulder muscles running from the shoulder blade to the top of the humerus. The larger of the two muscles, the teres major, makes the arm turn towards the inside, and the smaller, the teres minor, makes it turn towards the outside. Either of two muscles (teres major and teres minor) in the…