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A method of helping an injured person to walk, where they rest one arm over the shoulders of the person helping.  

A hormone produced by the placenta, which suppresses the mother’s usual menstrual cycle during pregnancy. It is found in the urine during pregnancy, and can be given by injection to encourage ovulation and help a woman to become pregnant. A glycoprotein hormone secreted by the placenta in early pregnancy, and stimulating the corpus luteum within the…

The structure, shape and functions of the human body.  

A test carried out several hours after sexual intercourse to determine the number and motility of spermatozoa [After Max Huhner (1873-1947), US urologist]. Postcoital examination of cervical mucus. Assessments include characteristics of the mucus as correlated with the phase of the woman’s menstrual cycle, and the number, morphology, motility, and ability of the sperm to…

An enzyme that is lacking in children, usually boys, who have Lesch-Nyhan disease.  

A doctor who works in a hospital as a house surgeon or house physician during the final year of training before registration by the General Medical Council.  

A tiny insect living mainly in bedding and soft furnishings, that can cause an allergic reaction.  

Happening every hour.  

A condition in which the wall of the stomach is pulled in so that it is divided into two cavities, cardiac and pyloric. The term given to the X-ray appearance of a stomach which is constricted in its middle part due either to spasm of the stomach muscle or to contraction of scar tissue from…