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Tending to produce heat, applied to drugs or food (fat burning food). An agent that improves metabolism by warming the body and improving circulation.  

A subgroup of lymphocytes that helps other white blood cells in immunologic processes.  

Acute dermatitis caused by both bacterial and fungal infection.  

Torsion of the spermatic cord, is a surgical emergency because it causes strangulation gonadal blood supply with subsequent testicular necrosis and atrophy. The rotation of the testicle along the spermatic cord, resulting in the interruption of blood flow to the testicle. This condition is regarded as a critical urological emergency.  

Is an agent that can cause malformations of an embryo or fetus. adj. teratogenic. Substance that deforms the fetus in the womb and so induces birth defects. A substance that can ca use deformity of a fetus. Anything that adversely affects normal cellular development in the embryo or fetus. It may be certain chemicals, some…

A strong desire to defaecate. Ineffectual and painful straining to urinate or defecate. A condition in which someone feels the need to pass faeces, or sometimes urine, but is unable to do so and experiences pain. Spasm of the rectum and desire to defecate without the production of significant amounts of feces. It is associated…

Median tissue culture infective dose; that amount of a pathogenic agent that will produce pathological change in 50% of cell cultures.