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A hand-operated hydraulic device used with attachments for the forceful raising, pushing apart, or pulling of vehicles or material useful in reaching and extricating trapped victims.  

Technically, to indicate that a person is in a satisfactory state of water balance. Combined chemically with water, forming a hydrate.  

In genetics, the increased vigor that frequently is demonstrated by the progeny of a cross between inbred lines or between unrelated forms, varieties, or species.  

The substance that controls the transformation of the primitive gonads into testes in the embryo. When not present, the primitive gonads develop into ovaries.  

The ground substance of living protoplasm.  

In dentistry, notched or peg-shaped teeth typically found in persons with congenital syphilis. The term applied to the narrowed and notched permanent incisor teeth which occur in congenital syphilis. They are so-named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), the London physician who first described them. Cone-shaped front teeth with notches at their cutting edges, observed in…

The theory stating that the rituals and activities associated with the use of drugs reinforce addiction and abuse.  

A slang expression for a male prostitute who serves other males who are seeking homosexual relations.  

In anatomy and physiology, the lateral hypothalamus ventromedial region of the hypothalamus.