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Pneumonic plague
Infection of the lungs by Yersina pestis, the bacterial agent that causes the plague, a disease of animals (rodents and their fleas) and humans. The first signs of the pneumonic plague are fever, headache, weakness, and cough productive of…
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Show more- Brill-Zinsser disease Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Caudal anesthesia Anesthesia produced by injection of a local anesthetic into the caudal canal, the sacral portion of the…
- Tanapox A poxvirus infection common in equatorial Africa. The disease starts with mild fever for 2 to 4 days…
- Marrow The bone marrow
- Metapneumovirus, human See: Human metapneumovirus
- Dicentric chromosome An abnormal chromosome with two centromeres rather than the normal one. Every normal chromosome has one…
- MLVT Malattia leventinese
- Anaptic Suffering from an impaired sense of touch, (a state called anaphia) or tactile anesthesia. An anaptic person…
- Pathy A suffix derived from the Greek 'pathos' meaning 'suffering or disease' that serves as a suffix in many terms…
- Aseptic bursitis Inflammation of a bursa that is not caused by infection. A bursa is a closed fluid-filled sac that functions…
- Snort Take in a drug by inhalation. For example, snorting cocaine is inhaling cocaine powder through the nose where…
- Microorchidism Abnormally small testes. To determine if the testes are too small, a device called an orchidometer is used…