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A brain trauma in which the skull is not opened by the injury, open head injury. A cranial injury characterized by a lack of skull fracture or penetration.  

A fracture which has no communication between the broken bone and the outside environment through the overlying skin, compound fracture. Alternate term for simple fracture, a kind of fracture in which two bone pieces are not displaced. A break in which the bone does not penetrate the overlying skin. A fracture in which the broken…

Little words whose function is grammatical in a language, morphemes; open-class morphemes.  

A form of educational technology using television technology to broadcast a program to a highly defined, limited population.  

Rapid oscillatory movements in which muscular rigidity and relaxation rapidly follow each other. Occurs following the tonic phase in a grand mal epileptic seizure. The rhythmic contraction and relaxation of a muscle, usually a sign of upper motor neurone lesions. Abnormal condition in which a skeletal muscle alternately contracts and relaxes; a rhythmical spasm often…

The process of reproducing a plant or animal identical to one of its kind. The reproduction of an individual organism by asexual means. The process of producing offspring which are genetically exactly the same as the parent, of producing clones. Cloning, from the Greek klon meaning a cutting such as is used to propagate plants,…

The stage of violent contractions and jerking of limbs in a grand mal epileptic seizure.  

A synthetic hormone which induces ovulation.  

In research, a conception of causation as resulting from tightly coupled events, such as the meshing of a train of gears.  

An opening at the posterior end of the body into which the intestinal, urinary, and reproductive ducts open.