Category: Q
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Qualified mental retardation professional
A person with more than one year’s experience working with mentally retarded persons who has a bachelor’s degree, a nursing degree, or another form quartz of professional education in health care.
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Quadrupedal reflex
Extension of the flexed arm on assuming a quadrupedal posture.
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Quadrisection
Dividing into four sections or parts.
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Quadrisect
To divide into four parts, usually of equal size.
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Quadrilocular
Having four chambers, cavities, or spaces.
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Quadrigeminal bodies
Four rounded projections from the roof of the midbrain.
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Quadrigeminal
Fourfold; having four symmetrical parts; to the corpora quadrigemina.
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Quadridigitate
Having only four fingers on a hand or four toes on a foot.
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Quadricepsplasty
Plastic surgery to repair adhesions and scars around the quadriceps femoris muscle in order to restore function.
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Quadriceps femoris
A large muscle on the anterior surface of the thigh composed of the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius muscles. These muscles are inserted by a common tendon on the tuberosity of the tibia. The quadriceps femoris is an extensor of the leg.