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Plasma made from freshly donated blood, and kept frozen. The fluid portion of one unit of human blood that has been centrifuged, separated, and frozen solid within 6 hours of collection.  

An operation to split a frenum. Division of any frenum, especially for tongue-tie.  

Exercises for people who have locomotor ataxia, to teach coordination of the muscles and limbs.  

A test for the venereal disease lymphogranuloma inguinale [Described 1925. After Wilhelm Siegmund Frei (1885-1943), Professor of Dermatology at Berlin, Germany. He settled in New York, USA.] A diagnostic test for the venereal disease lymphogranuloma venereum. A small quantity of the virus, inactivated by heat, is injected into the patient’s skin. If the disease is…

Osteochondritis of the head of the second metatarsus [Described 1914. After Albert Henry Freiberg (1869-1940), US surgeon.]  

To anaesthetise part of the body (informal). The process of drastically lowering the temperature of a food until the liquid particles solidify into ice is known as freezing. This technique is often employed to preserve food from spoilage.  

With brown spots on the skin.  

Weak, easily broken.  

A hereditary condition where the bones are brittle and break easily, similar to osteogenesis imperfecta.  

Fragility or brittleness. Abnormal brittleness or fragility, for example of the hair (fragilitas crinium) or the bones (fragilitas ossium).