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Oxyuris
A group of intestinal worms that includes pinworm.
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Show more- Barber itch A superficial fungal infection of the skin in the bearded area of the face and neck, with swellings and…
- Cannonball pulse See: Pulse, water hammer
- Ear cleaning (by a doctor) When so much wax accumulates that it blocks the ear canal (and hearing), your physician may have to wash it…
- Healthy food label A food that is low in fat and saturated fat and that contains limited amounts of cholesterol and sodium. If…
- Cutis anserina Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of…
- Juvenile-onset diabetes See Diabetes, type 1
- Under the weather Colloquial expression for sick or ill as, for example, to be under the weather with the flu. The phrase…
- Ankyrin deficiency Known also as hereditary spherocytosis (HS), this is a genetic disorder of the red blood cell membrane…
- Larynx transplant A transplant of the larynx, or voicebox. This procedure permits a human-sounding voice with inflection…
- Inversion, paracentric chromosome A basic type of chromosome rearrangement in which a segment that does not include the centromere (and so is…
- Institute of Medicine One of the National Academies of the United States. The Institute of Medicine conducts policy studies on…
- Aniline A chemical compound implicated, along with o-toluidine, in the causation of bladder cancer. Aniline and…