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Term Definition

A physician who specializes in treating diseases of the skin.


Abnormal organization of cells into tissues


Embryonic cells that form the outer covering of the body


Congenital absence of all or part of a digit.


Prenatal development between 4-7 weeks gestation


An agent that will soften and soothe the part when applied locally. The term is usually confined to agents affecting the surface of the body.


The child in utero from the third month to birth.

Gastroesophageal reflux



A discrete amount of information encoded on a portion of DNA. The genetic information is encoded in its own language. The genetic information on genes is first transcribed from DNA to RNA. The RNA is then used to make cellular proteins. There are multiple genes on each chromosome. Each human has 23 pairs of chromosomes. If the analogy is building a tower with legos, each lego (of different lengths) is a gene, when you stack the legos on top of each other, you are linking the genes and the stack of legos equals a chromosome. Each chromosome has a matching chromosome and forms a pair.

General Practitioner

Primary Care Physician


Pertaining to inheritance – the study of heredity and its variation.

Genetic testing



One who specializes in genetics.


A group of disorders leading to progressive damage to the optic nerve, and is characterized by loss of nerve tissue resulting in loss of vision.

Growth hormone

Hormone which is liberated by the anterior pituitary and important in regulating growth.

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