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Show more- Uncertainty You may be uncertain why 'uncertainty' deserves a place in a medical dictionary but some would say that…
- Spectrophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts. Sufferers of spectrophobia experience undue anxiety even though…
- Acute stress disorder The anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within a month of exposure to extreme trauma. The…
- Aphrasia The inability to speak or understand phrases
- Alexia A neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to read or understand the written word. Alexia…
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy See: Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle
- Infantile myxedema Hypothyroidism (subnormal activity of the thyroid gland) that starts after birth and is manifest by features…
- Spondylitis Inflammation of one or more of the vertebrae of the spine. Diffuse inflammation of the spine is seen in the…
- Pharmacogenomics The study of how variations in the human genome affect the response to medications. The older term…
- Child abuse, emotional Child abuse, emotional: Emotional child abuse is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse…
- Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 See B virus
- Lymph gland See Lymph node