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Heberden disease
>Angina pectoris, chest pain that is often severe and crushing, due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. >Osteoarthritis of the small joints with nodules (Heberden nodes) in and about the last joint of the finger. Both…
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Show more- Hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome Hand-foot-and-mouth syndrome: A clinical pattern consisting of a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth…
- Coarctation A narrowing, a stricture, a constriction. Although the best known coarctation is of the aorta, any artery can…
- Infraspinatus muscle >The infraspinatus muscle; >The teres minor muscle, which (like the infraspinatus muscle) helps in the…
- Anal incontinence Inability to hold feces in the rectum. This is due to failure of voluntary control over the anal sphincters…
- EMG, surface Surface EMG
- Bariatric Pertaining to bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with weight loss
- Test, pharmacologic stress There are a diversity of pharmacologic stress tests. Here this refers specifically to a pharmacologic cardiac…
- Subclavian steal An illness that stays below the surface of clinical detection. A subclinical disease has no recognizable…
- Cryptosporidiosis An intestinal infection characterized by diarrhea caused by a microscopic parasite, Cryptosporidium parvum…
- Cardiac defibrillator, implantable A device put within the body that is designed to recognize certain types of abnormal heart rhythms…
- Period, gestation The period of development of the young from the time of conception until birth. For humans the full gestation…
- Hip, developmental dislocation of the (DDH) The abnormal formation of the hip joint in which the ball at the top of the thighbone (the femoral head) is…