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Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the Italian, Spanish, German and Polish disease. The name 'syphilis' was coined by Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro)…
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Show more- Varco, Richard L. Innovative American surgeon (1912-2004) who helped perform the first successful open heart operation. On…
- Concatenate To link together in a chain or in a series. For example, the lymph nodes that appeared enlarged were…
- Exercise cardiac stress testing The most widely used cardiac (heart) screening test. The patient exercises on a treadmill according to a…
- Nat'l Inst. of Child Health and Human Dev.(NICHD) Nt (NICHD): One of the US National Institutes of Health, NICHD is in a sense the NIH for kids in that it is…
- Effusion, pericardial See: Pericardial effusion
- Stool The solid matter discharged in a bowel movement
- Musicomania A singular passion for music that is excessive and beyond all reason. From the French musicomanie, from music…
- Ulcer, aphthous Ulcer, aphthous: A small sensitive painful ulcer crater in the lining of the mouth. Commonly called a canker…
- PARK11 Familial Parkinson disease type 11
- OPV Oral polio vaccine. See Polio vaccine, oral
- Cysteine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Cysteine can be synthesized by the body and is not…
- Onychodystrophy Malformation of the nails