Category: I

A cleft involving only a part of the hard or soft palate.  

Chronic pain that is difficult or impossible to manage with standard interventions. Common causes include metastatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis, radiculopathy, spinal cord transection, or peripheral neuropathy. Intractable pain may also accompany somatoform disorders, depression, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and opiate dependence. Various combinations of the following management strategies are often used to treat intractable pain:…

Episodic, localized pelvic discomfort that occurs between menstrual periods, possibly accompanying ovulation. Pain in the pelvic region that arises between menstrual cycles can have various causes. In one form, the discomfort appears midway through the menstrual cycle, typically during ovulation.  

Pain in the presence of inflammation that is increased by pressure. Pain produced as a consequence of a peripheral inflammation, either acute or chronic. A normal kind of pain, associated with the healing of wounds, it can also become persistent, chronic, and pathologic.  

A cardiac pacemaker placed within the body.  

An artificial lung that has been used experimentally to assist in the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, especially in patients with COPD, respiratory failure, or chest trauma.  

The opening from which the urethra makes its exit from the bladder.  

Disruptions of the lips and soft tissue of the oral cavity.  

Opsonin formed after stimulation by a specific antigen.  

Observation of an inverted image in the ocular fundus.