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Fever, Thai hemorrhagic
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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- Preop Short for preoperative, before surgery. The opposite of preop is postop
- Klippel-Feil anomalad See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Medicine, transfusion Blood transfusion and blood conservation are the complementary activities that constitute the clinical arena…
- Cutaneous syndactyly A condition in which fingers or toes are joined together, and the joining involves only the skin, not the…
- Vasodilators Agents that act as blood vessel dilators (vasodilators) and open vessels by relaxing their muscular walls…
- Episcleritis Inflammation of the episclera, a thin membrane that covers the sclera (the white of the eye). Episcleritis is…
- Anterior tongue The front two-thirds of the tongue. In contrast to the base of the tongue, which is the back third. The…
- Elastin degrading enzyme See: Elastase
- Sigmoidoscope A thin lighted instrument used to view the inside of the rectum and lower colon
- Mental retardation, blindness, deafness, seizures Seizures: A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X-linked mental…
- Anaplasmosis A tick-borne disease of cattle, sheep, and related ruminants caused by a microorganism called Anaplasma…