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Disease, occupational
A disease due to a factor in a person's occupation. For example, lung disease in miners. Occupational medicine was founded by the Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714). His De Morbis Artificium (On Artificially Caused…
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Show more- Symptoms, withdrawal Abnormal physical or psychological features that follow the abrupt discontinuation of a drug that has the…
- Condom Although the word 'condom' usually refers to the male condom, there is also a female condom. Both male and…
- Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Inst. One of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the mission of the NIAID is 'to support and conduct…
- Interatrial septum The partition separating the upper chambers (the atria) of the heart
- Depression, bipolar See: Bipolar disorder
- Carditis Inflammation of the heart
- Restriction site A sequence in DNA that can be recognized and cut by a specific restriction enzyme.
- BRCA1 breast cancer susceptibility gene A mutated (changed) version of the BRCA1 gene that makes a person susceptible to developing breast cancer…
- Sight, day Night blindness. Listed in medical dictionaries under 'Nyctalopia' from the Greek 'nyct' (night) + 'aloas'…
- Fibrositis Also known as fibromyalgia. See: Fibromyalgia
- Nose job Slang for plastic surgery on the nose, known medically as a rhinoplasty. This is a facial cosmetic procedure…
- Trismus-pseudocamptodactyly syndrome See: Hecht syndrome