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Pleurisy in which the exudate causes the parietal pleura to adhere to the visceral. If this is extensive, the pleural space is obliterated. Pleurisy where the two layers of the pleural membrane – one covering the lungs and the other lining the chest cavity – are adhered together.  

A technique for measuring body composition (body volume and percentage of body fat) that relies on the relative volume and pressure of gas displaced by the body when it is placed inside a plethysmograph. An approach to measure body composition, regarded as a substitute for hydrostatic weighing, employs air instead of water to compute body…

In the embryo, the upper (dorsal) half of the neural tube (above the sulcus limitans).  

The causative agent of benign tertian or vivax malaria.  

Human plasma in which factor VIII, the antihemophilic globulin, has been preserved; used to correct temporarily the bleeding tendency in some forms of hemophilia.  

A plane that passes through a tooth parallel to the axis and in a mesiodistal direction.  

A plane that passes through an incisor or canine tooth parallel to the long axis of the tooth and in a labiolingual direction.  

A plane tangent to the alveolar point with most prominent points on lower aspects of condyles of the occipital bone.  

A dorsolateral placode located alongside the hindbrain that gives rise to the otocyst, which in turn develops into the internal ear.  

A placenta that extends like a belt around the interior of the uterus. A placenta that wraps inside the uterus like a belt.