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Deafness resulting from a blow to the head or ear.  

Obliteration of the pericardial space in chronic, constrictive pericarditis.  

A concretion as of protein and other substances. If infiltrated with calcium salts, it is termed a calculus.  

A device for excising the middle turbinate bone.  

In a fetal skull, one of the two curved plates located on the anterior portion of the body of the sphenoid bone and forming part of the roof of the nasal cavity.  

A distention of the turbinate bone due to cyst formation.  

A set of abstract and general concepts and propositions that provide a distinctive frame of reference for viewing human beings, the environment, health, and nursing actions; used to guide nursing practice, research, education, and administration.  

A neuropsychiatric test designed to gauge abstract verbal reasoning.