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Fasciitis, plantar
Inflammation of the plantar fascia (fasciitis), the 'bowstring-like' tissue stretching from the heel underneath the sole. Plantar fasciitis is often due to a bony spur projecting from the underside of the heel that makes walking painful…
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Show more- Amusia The inability to recognize musical tones or to reproduce them. Amusia can be congenital (present at birth) or…
- Vaccine, oral polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Dejerine-Klumpke palsy See: Klumpke palsy
- Humor In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Transferrin A plasma protein that transports iron through the blood to the liver, spleen and bone marrow. The blood…
- NTD Neural tube defect, a major birth defect caused by abnormal development of the neural tube, the structure…
- Common bile duct The duct that carries bile from the gallbladder and liver into the duodenum (the upper part of the small…
- Dysphonia, spastic See: Spasmodic dysphonia
- Ophthalmic veins The orbital cavity is drained by paired veins called the superior and inferior ophthalmic veins. The superior…
- Plexus 1. In medicine, a network or tangle of lymphatic vessels, nerves, or veins. For example, the brachial plexus…
- Homozygous Possessing two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent
- Hemoglobin A1C The main fraction of glycosylated hemoglobin (glycohemoglobin) which is hemoglobin to which glucose is bound…