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Oculodentodigital dysplasia
A genetic disorder that affects many body structures and systems, including the eyes, face, teeth, fingers and toes, and may also cause hearing loss, heart trouble and neurological problems. The disorder is due to mutation (change) in a…
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- Gastroesophageal Pertaining to both the stomach and the esophagus, as in the gastroesophageal junction, the place where the…
- Rale A type of abnormal lung sound heard through a stethoscope. Rales may be sibilant (whistling), dry (crackling)…
- Muscle, central core disease of One of the muscles that relax the zonules to enable the lens to change shape for focusing. The zonules are…
- Cervical disc A disk shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column in the…
- Alanine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Alanine is not an 'essential' amino acid. It is not…
- Patellectomy An operation to remove the patella
- Pestilence The pestilence referred to the bubonic plague and it now refers to any epidemic disease that is highly…
- Unstable diabetes A type of diabetes when a person's blood glucose (sugar) level often swings quickly from high to low and from…
- Atom The smallest part of any material that cannot be broken up by chemical means. Each atom has a center (the…
- Syndrome, Li-Fraumeni (LFS) This is an extraordinary cancer family syndrome. People with LFS have a tendency to develop a great diversity…
- Sixth cranial nerve The sixth cranial nerve is the abducent nerve, a small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle…