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Genital prolapse refers to the descent of the pelvic organs through the vaginal canal. To better understand how it happens, it is useful to frame the functioning of the pelvic floor

The Giordano manoeuvre is a manoeuvre used in medical semeiotics to investigate the presence of kidney pain; it is named after the physician Davide Giordano, who was active in the first half of the 1900s

Electrical cardioversion, CVE, is a therapeutic procedure used to restore normal heart rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation, flutter, or tachycardia and in whom pharmacological cardioversion has failed

Flat foot - from the Latin pes planus - is a dysmorphism that occurs with altered anatomical relationships of the foot, in particular with the characteristic reduction or total disappearance of the plantar arch with consequent enlargement…

Peritonitis is an inflammation of the serosa (called 'peritoneum') that lines the viscera and abdominal cavity, usually due to bacterial contamination

Cardiac tones are short, transient acoustic events, produced by the opening and closing of valves; they are divided into systolic and diastolic tones

The kidney ballot maneuver is a technique used in medical semeiotics to appreciate the abnormal displacement of an organ, particularly the kidneys

The female orgasm is defined, on a physiological level, as a reflex that is generated mainly by stimulation of sensory nerves located in the clitoris, but also by impulses from other areas, including the vaginal access and the nipples

Unlike astigmatism, nearsightedness, and farsightedness, presbyopia is not a refractive error. Instead, it is a physiological reduction of the accommodative amplitude and, therefore, of the maximum level of accommodation that an eye…

Coronary angioplasty is the procedure by which an obstructed blood vessel is dilated using a balloon placed where the problem arises; it is inflated to recreate the space needed for blood to flow