Category: B

A placenta consisting of two lobes.  

A placenta with two separate portions attached to separate sites on the wall of the uterus, occasionally found in humans.  

A class of medicines taken orally to control conception. They contain synthetic forms of estrogen and progesterone or synthetic progesterone alone.  

A pigment in blood (hemo globin) or a derivative of it (hematin, hemin, methemoglobin, hemosiderin).  

Severe, epidemic, pseudomembranous inflammation of the fauces and tonsils caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus. It was formerly known as septic sore throat.  

Peritonitis caused by the escape of bile into the peritoneal cavity. It usually results from an injury to the gallbladder or biliary ducts during cholecystectomy.  

A pathological appearance seen in fibrinous pericarditis, in which the pericardium has a peculiar appearance as a result of fibrinous deposits on the two opposing surfaces.  

A hormone secreted by the left or right ventricle of the heart whose concentration in the bloodstream rises during episodes of decompensated heart failure.  

Synthetic penicillins that resist the action of the enzyme beta-lactamase, produced by some microorganisms. Bacteria that produce the enzyme are not susceptible to the action of non-beta-lactamase resistant penicillins.  

An oval pelvis in which the transverse diameter is at least 1 cm longer, but no more than 3 cm longer, than the anteroposterior diameter of the pelvis.