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What Does Zoonosis Mean? for Kids
Zoonosis means a disease that people can get from animals.
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What Does Chronic Mean? for Kids
This word refers to an illness that a person has for a long time or an illness that goes away and keeps coming back.
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What Does Epistaxis Mean? for Kids
Epistaxis is usually no big deal — it's just the medical word for a bloody nose.
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What Does Amputate Mean? for Kids
To amputate something is to remove something by cutting.
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What Does Dislocation Mean? for Kids
A dislocation is when one or more bones at a joint moves out of place.
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What Does Inhale Mean? for Kids
You're doing it now . . . and now . . . and now . . . and now!
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What Does Exhale Mean? for Kids
Put one hand on your chest and take a deep breath . . . hold it!
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What Does REM Stand for? for Kids
This is short for rapid eye movement, the stage of sleep when your eyes move back and forth under your closed eyelids and you have dreams.
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What Does Genetics Mean? for Kids
Genetics is the study of the way physical traits and characteristics get passed down from one generation to the next.
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What Does Pulmonary Mean? for Kids
Breathe in . . . breathe out . . . and feel your pulmonary power!