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Alice in Wonderland syndrome
A syndrome of distorted space, time and body image. The patient with the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has a feeling that their entire body or parts of it have been altered in shape and size. The syndrome is usually associated with visual…
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Show more- Osteotomy Taking out part or all of a bone, or cutting into or through bone.
- Reimplantation Synonymous with replantation. See: Replantation
- Nurses Health Study A very large and important prospective investigation into the risk factors for major chronic diseases in…
- False positive A result that is erroneously positive when a situation is normal. An example of a false positive: a…
- Colonic (adjective) Relating to the colon, that part of the large intestine that runs from the cecum to the rectum. For a…
- Neprilysin See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase
- ARMD Age-related macular degeneration (which may also be abbreviated as AMD)
- Nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma See: Tylosis with esophageal cancer
- Encephalitis Inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis occurs, for example, in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. It may start (up…
- Erythrocyte membrane protein band 4.1 (EPB41) See Elliptocytosis
- Omphalos The omphalos (or omphalus) is also called the umbilicus or navel. 'Omphalos' is the Greek word for the navel…
- Valve, Spitz-Holter See Spitz-Holter valve