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Torn, shredded, or blasted apart; said for example of the limbs of severely traumatized patients.  

A guide or stylet for a flexible catheter in order to give it shape and firmness, especially for use in the urinary meatus.  

A device to maintain an open airway in patients who suffer partial upper airway collapse during sleep. The splint is placed in the mouth at bedtime.  

Legally required notification to a state, federal, or police agency of a criminal act, e.g., domestic violence, or of a disease that poses a menace to public health.  

A means of apportioning damage awards to successful plaintiffs in a lawsuit, in which the money owed the plaintiff is paid as an annuity rather than as a lump sum. This form of payment is occasionally used as a means of restitution to plaintiffs in malpractice suits.  

A tree, Hippomane mancinella, native to tropical America that contains a milky, poisonous sap. Contact with the sap causes blistering of the skin. The fruit is also poisonous.  

A circular band consisting of microtubules around the caudal pole of developing sperm.  

To have the effect of stimulating size or function of the breast.  

A minimally invasive vacuum core biopsy instrument used to collect breast tissue for pathological analysis. It consists of a probe with an opening in the tip that connects to a vacuum source, a thumbwheel that controls the direction of the opening, a hollow, high-speed rotating cutter, and a tissue collection chamber. A technique utilized to…

Having unusually large breasts.