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The amount of energy shown as a number of calories.  

Referring to calories or to heat.  

Mercurous chloride, a poisonous substance used to treat pinworms in the intestine.  

Relating to callisthenics. Energetic physical exercises for improving fitness and muscle tone, including push-ups, situps and star jumps.  

An instrument with two legs, used for measuring the width of the pelvic cavity. An instrument with two sharp points which are put into a fractured bone and weights attached to cause traction. A leg splint made of rods and straps and usually fastened to the lower leg to enable the hip bone rather than…

Swelling of the calyces.  

The interior diameter of a tube or of a blood vessel. A talking-book service which is available to people with visual or other physical disability, as well as dyslexia, who are unable to read printed books in the normal way. Its catalogue contains more than 7,000 titles including children’s books.  

An instrument used to enlarge a tube or passage. An instrument for measuring the diameter of a tube or passage. An instrument used for measuring the size of a tube or opening. An instrument for measuring the inside diameter of tubes or orifices.  

To measure the inside diameter of a tube or passage. To measure the sizes of two parts of the body to be joined together in surgery. To adjust an instrument or piece of equipment against a known standard. In the realm of X-ray machines, the process of ascertaining the specific values of voltage, current, frequency,…