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A practitioner who diagnoses and treats disease. A health professional with the degree of doctor of osteopathy, or D.O., who has trained in and is licensed to perform general medicine and surgery, including use of drugs, but who works within the system of osteopathic medicine, which sees the body’s nerve-muscle-skeletal network as key to health…

A field of medicine emphasizing diagnosing and treating structural problems through manipulating the musculoskeletal system. Practitioners receive much the same training and perform similar functions as medical doctors. A branch of medicine that focuses on the interactive relationships among the many body systems and the shifting balance among them as it relates to a person’s…

An inflammatory process of bone and cartilage about a joint. Degeneration of the epiphyses. Inflammation of a bone associated with pain: the deposition of abnormal bony tissue seen on X-ray. The cause is not known and the condition is frequently self-limiting, though permanent deformity of the affected bone may result. Treatment is with analgesics. Inflammation…

Any disease involving-the bones and joints. A disease of the bone and cartilage at a joint, particularly the ankles, knees or wrists, associated with carcinoma of the bronchi. Any disease of the bone and cartilage adjoining a joint. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is characterized by the formation of new bony tissue and occurs as a complication of…

One of the small bones of the tympanum of the ear, malleus, incus, or stapes. Small bone. The auditory ossicles are the three small bones (incus, stapes, and malleus) of the middle ear that transmit sound vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. Three tiny bones in each ear: malleus, incus, and stapes;…

The three small bones of the middle ear (malleus, incus, and stapes) that transmit vibrations to the inner ear.  

Receptors that help to control water intake by responding to the concentrations of body fluids. A cell in the hypothalamus which checks the level of osmotic pressure in the blood by altering the secretion of ADH and regulates the amount of water in the blood. Structures in the hypothalamus that detect changes (elevations) in blood…

Salt loving.  

The mouth or orifice to the uterus.  

An excurrent opening. A small opening or pore.