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A foot with a shape that does not allow usual walking, a congenital condition. The medical name for the foot-and-ankle deformity commonly called clubfoot. Any of several deformities of the foot, including talipes equinus, in which the toes are pointed downward, and talipes calcaneus, in which the toes are pointed upward so that the person…

Scented talc.  

A soft white powder used to dust on irritated skin. Powdered soapstone; a soft, soapy powder; native hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, used, for example, in pleurodesis.  

To remove something, especially clothes.  

To look after someone.  

To be like one or other parent.    

To swallow a medicine. To do particular actions. (Of graft) to be accepted by the body. To be affective, as in administering a vaccine; or to be successful in grafting skin or transplating an organ.  

Trade name for a preparation of cimetidine.  

A substance which makes tapeworms leave the body. An agent, such as dichlorophen, that eliminates tapeworms from the body of their host.  

The outer band of muscle running along the large intestine. The three bands of smooth muscle into which the longitudinal muscle layer of the colon is gathered. They are taenia mesocolica (mesenteric insertion), taenia libera (opposite mesocolic band), and taenia omentalis (at place of attachment of omentum to transverse colon).