A 'ball and socket' joint.
MedialMedio = middle-al = pertaining toMedial = pertaing to the middleMedial
Spina Bifidait's spina bifida.
Could be called hypertrophy, (that means overgrown tissue) or metastasized. Not sure if that just applies to cancerous tumors or not.
(There is a medical use, meaning intoxicated, and one meaning exhausted.) The psychiatrist kept his wealthy patients zonked on barbituates. After the long drive home, he was too zonked to eat, and simply fell asleep.
The medical term for blood in the eye is subconjunctival hemorrhage. This occurs when a small blood vessel breaks just underneath the clear surface of the eye (conjunctiva), resulting in a red spot on the white part of the eye. It is usually harmless and resolves on its own.
Osteorrhaphy is the medical term meaning suturing or wiring together of bones.
Approximate (rhymes with "date") is the medical term meaning to bring close together or into apposition.
Symphysis
Constriction is the medical term meaning normal, physiologic narrowing. Stenosis is the medical term meaning abnormal narrowing.
Platelet aggregation is the medical term for the process in which platelets stick together.
Adhesion is the medical term meaning process of being stuck together, as it might relate to cells, tissues, or organs. In terms of two fetuses, the medical term is "conjoined."
The branch of science Fred Hollows studied was Medical Science in Biology because he was an ophthalmologist - eye doctor.
collagenCollagen
-desis means bind or tie together.
Approximation means bringing together, such as the opposite edges of a wound.
The medical terminology combining form that means to bind or tie together is "ligament/o."
fibers