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  • Addiction - Definition

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    Addiction is defined as the dependence of a person on a substance or an activity which generates pleasure, which the person can no longer go without despite his/her own will. Numerous addictions...

  • Adductors - Definition

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    Adductors are the muscles whose main role is to allow adduction, which is the movement that draws the member to which the muscle is attached closer to the rest of the body. Adductor muscles can be...

  • Adductors (pain) - Definition

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    Pain in the adductors, the term commonly assigned to the adductor muscles in the thigh, is generally caused either by tendonitis, which is an inflammation of the tendons, or by a pulled groin, an...

  • Lieberkuhnian adenocarcinoma - Definition

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    Adenocarcinoma is a malignant tumor that develops in the glandular tissue of an organ. Lieberkuhnian adenocarcinoma is found in the Lieberkuhn glands located on the inner wall of the small and...

  • Adenoma - Definition

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    An adenoma is a benign tumor developed at the expense of a gland (testicle, breast, kidney, stomach) or of certain glandular mucus membranes (colon, rectum, uterus...). An adenoma is particular in...

  • Adenoma of the prostate - Definition

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    Adenoma of the prostate, also called benign hypertrophy of the prostate is a benign tumor on this gland, located under the bladder of men. This causes an increase in the size of the prostate,...

  • Pleomorphic adenoma - Definition

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    Pleomorphic adenoma is the most frequent of the tumors to affect the principal salivary glands like the parotid (located in the mouth, just under the ear) or the minor salivary glands near the...

  • Adenopathy - Definition

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    Adenopathy is an inflammation of one or several of the lymph nodes, either due to swelling or to cancer. The lymph nodes are a sort of knot situated in the path of the lymphatic vessels which play...

  • Mediastinal adenopathies - Definition

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    Mediastinal adenopathies are defined as the increase in the volume of the ganglions situated in the mediastinum, the region situated between the lungs near the heart, trachea, bronchial tubes, and...

  • Adhesion - Definition

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    Adhesion is the union of two organs or tissues that are near to each other but normally separated. They are stuck to each other by a connective tissue. This tissue has the role, among other...

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