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A legal standard that limits the culpability of those with psychological or neurological diseases who have committed criminal acts. It states that an unlawful act is not a criminal act if it was committed by someone mentally ill, e.g., psychotic at the time, or was committed by someone with profound neurological disease, e.g., with severe…

Accumulation of blood between the arachnoid and the dura.  

Plastic repair of the dura mater.  

In cardiac auscultation, the expression for the second heart sound heard over the apex. This sound is shorter and of higher pitch than lubb, the first heart sound.  

A fetal abnormality in which an organ or a part is doubled or apparently doubled.  

An incision into the duodenum.  

Inspection of the duodenum with an endoscope.  

Surgical creation of a passage between the duodenum and the jejunum. A surgical procedure that connects the duodenum to the jejunum, the second section of the small intestine.  

Surgical formation of a passage between the duodenum and the ileum when the jejunum has been surgically excised.