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Gaucher disease, type 1
Gaucher disease, type 1: The most common and best known form of Gaucher disease. It affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow and spares the brain. The symptoms include enlargement of the spleen (usually the first sign), anemia, low blood…
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Show more- Total parenteral nutrition Intravenous feeding that provides a patient with all of the fluid and the essential nutrients they need when…
- Neurosis, hypochondriacal See: Hypochondriasis
- Vulvar cancer See: Cancer of the vulva
- Frotteurism Frotteurism is a problem where the focus of the person's sexual urges is related to touching or rubbing his…
- Hospice care Care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort…
- Anetoderma An area of slack 'baglike' skin due to a local absence or loss of elastic fibers in the skin. The skin…
- Training, cross Doing two or more aerobic activities such as jogging, bicycling, and swimming on a regular basis
- Aphasia, primary progressive See: Primary progressive aphasia
- Introitus In anatomy, an introitus is an entrance, one that goes into a canal or hollow organ. The introitus of the…
- Gluteal Pertaining to the buttock region formed by the gluteal muscles (the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and…
- Lysergic acid diethylamide Better known as LSD. (LSD is the abbreviation for the German name for the drug: Lysergsaure-Diathylamid.)…
- Saccharin An artificial sweetener which diluted in water is 300-500 times sweeter than the sugar sucrose. (Saccharin is…