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A corticosteroid drug taken by inhalation or in tablets, used in the treatment of hay fever and nasal polyps. A glucocorticoid-like compound that acts as an anti-inflamatory drug.  

A disease of the liver, where thrombosis has occurred in the hepatic veins [Described 1845. After George Budd (1808-82), Professor of Medicine at King’s College Hospital, London; Hans von Chiari (1851-1916), Viennese pathologist who was Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Strasbourg and later at Prague.] A rare disorder in which the veins that drain blood…

A cheek muscle which helps the jaw to move when chewing. A muscle of the cheek that has its origin in the maxilla and mandible (jaw ones). It is responsible for compressing the cheek and is important in mastication.  

A pad of fat separating the buccinator muscle from the masseter.  

The mouth.  

A trade name for ibuprofen.  

A type of rod-shaped bacterium. Bacteriological genus within the family Brucellaceae, the Brucella are small Gram-negative cocco-bacilli associated with undulant fever in man, and contagious abortion in animals (particularly cows). The organisms are non-motile, non-sporing, and the species are differentiated culturally by their need for CO2, production of H2S, and inhibition by basic fuchsin and…

A condition in which the spinal cord has been partly severed or compressed, with the result that lower half of the body is paralysed on one side and loses felling in the other side [Described 1851. After Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard (1817-94), French physiologist.] Hemisection of the spinal cord with: paralysis, loss of position and vibratory…

A type of thin catheter used to insert into a vein.