Author: Glossary

A congenitally deformed fetus whose twin is enclosed in the body or in a cyst on the fetus.  

The adjustment of a person to the norms and values of his community,  

To disguise; to shield from view by representing one symbolic character with another.  

Obstruction of a body part or of a stent placed in the body with granulation tissue or calcified debris. The term is used in particular to refer to blockage of urethral stents.  

To express or represent in genetic code, i.e., in a string of nucleotide bases that can be translated into the amino acids that make up a protein.  

Having the planes of the fetal head inclined to those of the maternal.  

A mass of tissue that becomes enclosed by tissue of another kind.  

A benign cartilaginous outgrowth from bone or cartilaginous tissue.  

A sarcoma made up of cartilaginous tissue or growing within an enchondroma.  

To the brain and spinal cord.