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Leukemia, myelogenous
Condition in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells. Early symptoms include fatigue and night sweats. Treatment may be by radiation, chemotherapy, biological therapy, or bone- marrow transplant. Also known as chronic…
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Show more- Mutation, private A rare mutation found usually only in a single family or a small population. (It is like a privately printed…
- Heights, fear of An irrational unreasonable fear of heights is called acrophobia. From the Greek 'acron', height + 'phobos'…
- Typhus, murine An acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder than, epidemic…
- Scarification The making of many small, superficial scratches in the skin. Scarification may be done in giving a smallpox…
- Legg-Perthes disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- HER2 Abbreviation for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. HER2 is expressed by, and involved in the growth…
- Fibrosarcoma A malignant tumor that begins in fibrous connective tissue at the ends of the arm or leg bones and may spread…
- Itching Itching: An uncomfortable sensation in the skin that feels as if something is crawling on the skin or in the…
- Formalin A 37% aqueous (water) solution of formaldehyde, a pungent gas, with the chemical formula HCHO, used as an…
- Filgrastim Filgrastim: See: G-CSF.
- Fibrates for lowering cholesterol Fibrates are cholesterol-lowering drugs that are primarily effective in lowering triglycerides and, to a…
- Albuginea Tough white fibrous tissue. The tunica albuginea of the testis, for example, is the layer of dense whitish…