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The action of detecting something.  

To sense or to notice, usually something which is very small or difficult to see.  

A condition in which the retina becomes partially separated from the eyeball, causing loss of vision. Separation of the retina from the choroid in the back of the eye, usually resulting from internal changes in the eye, sometimes from severe injury. Symptoms include the sensation of flashing lights as the eye is moved, the appearance…

To separate one thing from another.  

(Of skin) to peel off, or be removed in layers. To shed or scale off the surface epithelium.  

A hormone used an as oral contraceptive. A progestogen medication utilized in conjunction with ethinylestradiol as a component of certain combined oral contraceptives is known as desogestrel. It has been reported that desogestrel carries a slightly elevated risk of venous thromboembolism compared to older drugs. Potential side effects of desogestrel encompass weight fluctuations and fluid…

To deaden a nerve and remove sensitivity. To treat someone suffering from an allergy by giving graduated injections of the substance to which he or she is allergic over a period of time until they become immune to it.  

The act of making someone or something no longer sensitive to something such as an allergen. The treatment of an allergy by giving a person injections of small quantities of the substance to which he or she is allergic over a period of time until they become immune to it. In psychiatry, a method for…

A set of nerves which takes impulses away from the head. White fibers in the spinal cord that carry nerve impulses from the brain.  

The third section of the colon which goes down the left side of the body. That part of the colon extending from the end of the transverse colon on the left side of the abdomen in the region of the spleen downward to the sigmoid colon in the pelvis. Segment of the small intestine posterior…