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Diabetic eye disease
1. A disease of the small blood vessels of the retina of the eye in people with diabetes. The vessels swell and leak liquid into the retina, blurring the vision and sometimes leading to blindness. Also called diabetic retinopathy. 2. Any…
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- Sleepiness, excessive daytime (EDS) A neurological disorder marked by a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep. Also known as…
- Annotation, genome The process of identifying the locations and the coding regions of genes in a genome and determining what…
- Nosebleed Nosebleed: Its medical name is epistaxis.
- Disease, pelvic inflammatory (PID) Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending…
- Zebra The term 'zebra' in medicine does not refer to the striped African animal but to an unlikely diagnostic…
- Inbreeding, coefficient of A measure of how close two people are genetically to each another. The coefficient of inbreeding, symbolized…
- Calcitriol The active form of vitamin D. Calcitriol is formed in the kidneys or made in the laboratory. It is used as a…
- Craniocleidodysostosis >Typical cranial and facial abnormalities with square skull, late closure of the sutures of the skull, late…
- Lentigo maligna melanoma See: Melanoma, lentigo maligna
- Infantile genetic agranulocytosis Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting…
- Ergotism Ergotism could be called a 'cereal killer' for its cause, ergot, comes from cereals such as rye and wheat and…