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What Does Autoimmunity Mean? for Kids
Your immune system fights infections and illnesses. But sometimes the immune system makes a mistake and attacks part of the body. This is called autoimmunity.
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What Does Myopia Mean? for Kids
Myopia is also known as nearsightededness, which means you can see things up close, but have trouble seeing objects far away, like the words on a chalkboard.
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How Does the Muscular System Work? (Video) for Kids
Watch this movie about the muscular system.
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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 Farsighted Mean? for Kids
If it's easy for you to see things far away but you have trouble seeing things that are close, you might be farsighted.
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What Does Nutrition Mean? for Kids
Nutrition is the study of food and how it works in your body.
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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 Rx Mean? for Kids
This is short for the word prescription.
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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 Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia Mean? for Kids
This is another name for an ice cream headache.