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Test, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory
A blood test for syphilis. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory is commonly abbreviated VDRL. A negative ('nonreactive') VDRL is compatible with a person not having syphilis. However, a person may a negative VDRL and still have syphilis…
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Show more- Heart muscle A type of muscle with unique features only found in the heart. The heart muscle, or cardiac muscle, is…
- AMS (acute mountain sickness) Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the effect on the body of being in a high altitude environment. AMS is…
- Disorder, orgasmic See: Anorgasmia
- Lepra 1. Leprosy (Hansen disease) 2. Before the mid 19th century, psoriasis.The acronym LEPRA stands for the…
- Nerve, olfactory See: Olfactory nerve
- Disease, Behcet's See: Behcet's syndrome
- G-CSF Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. A colony-stimulating factor that stimulates the production of…
- Arthritis, spondylitis A form of arthritis causing chronic inflammation of the spine
- Polle syndrome The Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. Polle was the fictional Baron Munchausen's only child and died at a year…
- Organisation Mondiale de la Sante The French name for the World Health Organization (WHO). See: World Health Organization
- Spanish flu A pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) in 1918-19 that caused the highest number of known flu deaths. More than…
- Reservoir, Ommaya A device implanted under the scalp that is used to deliver anticancer drugs to the cerebrospinal fluid, the…