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Steroid abuse
Steroid abuse: Use of substances containing anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass. Such steroids can have many side effects when misused, including psychiatric problems, liver tumors, reduction in the size of the male genitals and…
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- Sign language Sign language: A language that employs signs made with the hands and other movements, including facial…
- Seizure, tonic-clonic See: Tonic-clonic seizure
- Ultrasound, endoscopic See: Endoscopic ultrasound
- X (in genetics) Although the letter X can be used as a symbol in various ways (such as with X-rays, the X-axis of a graph…
- JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA began publication in 1883. It now bills itself as 'the…
- Knee jerk The reflex tested by tapping just below the knee causing the lower leg to suddenly jerk forward. What is…
- Kearns-Sayre syndrome Exercises designed to increase muscle strength and elasticity in the female pelvis. Kegel exercises may be…
- Akinetic Without movement (or without much movement). A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of…
- Virus, Coxsackie See: Coxsackievirus
- Minot-Von Willebrand disease See: Von Willebrand disease