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Body cavity — Picture of Human body cavities dorsal body cavity to the left and ventral body cavity to the right. By the broadest definition, a body cavity is any fluid filled space in a multicellular organism. However, the term usually refers to the space… … Wikipedia
Primary effusion lymphoma — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 33904 ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = 9678/3 OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D054685 Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a B cell lymphoma.… … Wikipedia
primary effusion lymphoma — A rare, aggressive (fast growing) type of B cell non Hodgkin’s lymphoma marked by an abnormal build up of fluids in a body cavity. It usually occurs together with a human herpesvirus in people who have weakened immune systems, such as in AIDS … English dictionary of cancer terms
cavity — 1. A hollow space; hole. See cave, c., cavitas, cavernous space. 2. Lay term for the loss of tooth structure due to dental caries. SYN: cavum [TA], cavitas. [L. cavus … Medical dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
Body plan — A body plan, or bauplan, is essentially the blueprint for the way the body of an organism is laid out. An organism s symmetry,cite web | title = Up and down...or around and around? Body Symmetry in Animals | work = The Diversity of Living… … Wikipedia
Normal human body temperature — 98.6 redirects here. For other uses, see 98.6 (disambiguation). Normal human body temperature, also known as normothermia or euthermia, is a concept that depends upon the place in the body at which the measurement is made, and the time of day and … Wikipedia
List of muscles of the human body — Skeletal muscles homo sapiens Muscles of the human body: Overview Head | Neck |&# … Wikipedia
List of distinct cell types in the adult human body — There are about 210 distinct human cell types,.[1][2][3] There are between 50 and 75 trillion cells in the human body.[citation needed] Cell types can be classified by their tissue of origin. However, it is possible for some cells to have their… … Wikipedia
thoracic cavity — or chest cavity Second largest hollow space of the body, enclosed by the ribs, vertebral column, and breastbone and separated from the abdominal cavity by the diaphragm. It contains the lungs and bronchi, part of the esophagus and trachea, and… … Universalium
