Morgue
A place where dead bodies are kept before autopsy, funeral, or burial.
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A birth defect of the optic nerve (the nerve to the eye) in which there is a coloboma (cleft) of the optic disc. The coloboma results in a funnel-shaped optic nerve head with a white dot in the center, an elevated ring of pigment around the disk, and vessels radiating out from the ring like […]
- Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Morning sickness is a misnomer, because it can occur at any time of the day (though not at night during sleep) and it is not a sickness. It is a normal characteristic of early pregnancy. Morning sickness is now believed to be a good thing since it appears associated with […]
- Morphea
Skin changes that are localized to one or more patchy areas of skin that become hardened, dry, smooth, and slightly pigmented. Morphea is called ‘localized scleroderma’ but it rarely, if ever, evolves into full-fledged scleroderma, an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue.
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Another name for morphine. Both morphia and morphine come from the name of Morpheus, the ancient god of sleep and dreams.
- Morpheus
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