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  • Field hospital

    A portable military hospital beyond the zone of conflict and the dressing stations.  

  • Evacuation hospital

    A mobile advance hospital unit that replaces field hospitals and supplements base hospitals.  

  • Camp hospital

    An immobile military unit for the care of the sick and wounded.  

  • Base hospital

    An institution for treatment of the sick and injured. A hospital unit within the lines of an army that receives wounded and sick patients from the front line.  

  • Horseshoe crab

    A species of arthropod more related to the arachnids than to the crustaceans. Its blood is based on copper rather than iron and is used in testing drugs for bacterial contamination.  

  • Horror

    Intense fear, revulsion, or dread caused by seeing or hearing something that is terrifying, shocking, or perceived to be life-threatening to the individual or to others.  

  • Horopter

    The sum of all points in space that have a corresponding point on the retina of the eye.  

  • Ventral horn

    The anterior horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord. Anatomical region of the spinal cord that sends output signals to muscles for movement.  

  • Uterine horn

    Either of the two upper corners of the uterus into which the uterine tubes enter.  

  • Sebaceous horn

    A hard protrusion from a sebaceous gland.  

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