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Morbilli
Another name for measles, an acute highly contagious viral disease with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, and a spreading skin rash. Also known as rubeola, it is a potentially disastrous disease and can be complicated by ear infections…
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- Constraint-induced movement therapy A form of intensive physical therapy aimed at reorganizing and reprogramming the brain after a stroke, a…
- Oma Suffix meaning a swelling or tumor. Many words in medicine end in -oma. Some examples include adenoma…
- Fibroma, desmoplastic A rare type of primary bone tumor characteristically composed of well-differentiated cells that produce…
- Anterior cruciate injury A knee injury involving the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The ACL runs diagonally across the front of the…
- Blood group, ABO The major human blood group system. The ABO type of a person depends upon the presence or absence of two…
- Carb Slang for carbohydrate. Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of…
- Hyperglycemic response A response resulting in a high blood sugar and specifically elevating the level of the sugar glucose in the…
- Human Genome Project International effort aimed at identifying and sequencing (ordering) all of the bases in the human genome…
- Phalanx Anatomically, any one of the bones in the fingers or toes. (Plural: phalanges.) There are 3 phalanges (the…
- Paul M. Zoll See: Zoll, Paul M.
- Nuclei The plural of nucleus