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A coiled part of a nephron. Small, twisting tubule in glomerulus in the kidney that connects Bowman’s capsule and the loop of Henle.  

A type of hospital where people can recover from illness or surgery. A facility that provides care for people who are recovering from surgery, illness, or injury.  

A structure shaped like a cone.  

A wound caused by a blow where the skin is bruised as well as torn and bleeding. A bruise in which the skin is not broken. It may be caused by a blunt instrument. Injury of the tissues under the skin, leaving the skin unbroken, traumatizes the soft tissue. Ruptured blood vessels underneath the skin…

A trial in which members of one group are treated with a test substance and those of another group are treated with a placebo as a control. A scientific approach employed to evaluate the efficacy of novel therapies or to make comparisons between diverse treatment options. In a typical controlled pharmaceutical trial, two comparable sets…

The control of a person’s breathing by an anaesthetist during an operation, when regular breathing has stopped.  

An injury to one point of an organ such as the brain, caused by a blow received on an opposite point of the organ. Injury to one side that results from a blow to the opposite side (as a blow to the forehead causing damage to the back of the skull or rear part of…

A radio-opaque dye, or sometimes gas, put into an organ or part of the body so that it will show clearly in an X-ray photograph. Substance, administered orally, intravenously, or via enema, that is radiopaque when exposed to X rays. The administration of such a compound allows for examination by a radiologist of the tissue…

The tissue in muscle which makes the muscle contract.  

The capacity to contract.