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Philippine hemorrhagic fever
A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage (bleeding) and circulatory collapse (shock). Known also as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), it starts abruptly with high…
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- Amnesia Lack of memory. Amnesia after trauma can be antegrade or retrograde, depending upon whether the lack of…
- Plexus 1. In medicine, a network or tangle of lymphatic vessels, nerves, or veins. For example, the brachial plexus…
- Cloning, therapeutic See: Therapeutic cloning
- MVP In medicine, not the most valuable player but mitral valve prolapse
- Clinical psychology A professional specialty concerned with diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain, emotional disturbance…
- Pica A craving for something not normally regarded as nutritive. For example, dirt. Pica is a classic clue to iron…
- Cervical disc A disk shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column in the…
- Chemosense The chemical sensing system. The sense of smell is part of our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses
- Red jungle fowl genome The genome of Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens. See: Chicken genome
- Familial lung cancer Lung cancer that recurs in families. Lung cancer can occur sporadically in people with no known family…
- Intolerance, lactose The inability to digest lactose, a sugar component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose is…