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In young babies, a series of internal head injuries caused by being shaken violently. They can result in brain damage leading to speech and learning disabilities, paralysis, seizures, blindness and hearing loss. They are often life-threatening.  

An injury to the vertebrae in the neck, caused when the head jerks backwards, often occurring in a car that is struck from behind. An imprecise term for injury to the cervical vertebrae and adjacent soft tissues. It is produced by a sudden jerking or relative backward or forward acceleration of the head with respect…

Making a whistling sound when breathing.  

A whistling noise in the bronchi. Abnormal high-pitched sound heard through a stethoscope in an airway blocked by mucus, neoplasm, muscle spasm, or pressure. It occurs in asthma, in chronic bronchitis, and unilaterally in the presence of a foreign body or neoplasm in the airway. Audible whistling breath sound often associated with asthma or airway…

A jelly-like tissue in the umbilical cord. The mesoderm tissue of the umbilical cord, which becomes converted to a loose jellylike mesenchyme surrounding the umbilical blood vessels. The gelatinous intercellular material of the umbilical cord; it consists of collagen, mucin, and hyaluronic acid. It is rich in hyaluronic acid, and in primitive stem cells.  

A duct which takes saliva into the mouth from the salivary glands under the lower jaw [After Thomas Wharton (1614-73), English physician and anatomist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK]. The secretory duct of the submandibular salivary gland. The channel from the salivary gland located under the lower jaw that transports saliva into the mouth.…

Beriberi in which the body swells with oedema.  

Not dry, covered in liquid.  

A mosquito-borne viral infection which causes fever, pains, enlarged lymph nodes and sometimes inflammation of the brain.  

A surgical operation to remove the uterus, the lymph nodes which are next to it and most of the vagina, the ovaries and the Fallopian tubes, as treatment for cancer of the uterus [Described 1900. After Ernst Wertheim (1864-1920), Austrian gynaecologist.] A surgical procedure to remove the entire uterus and as much of the surrounding…