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Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis
See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
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- Follicle, hair See: Hair follicle
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- Two-faced twins Twin: Known medically as diprosopus, two-faced twins are conjoined twins (incompletely separated identical…
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