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Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
Fatty liver of pregnancy: Liver failure in late pregnancy, usually from unknown cause. Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) typically occurs in first-time pregnancies in the last trimester. AFLP causes nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain…
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- Interval malignancy In mammography, a malignancy that becomes evident during the period between annual screening mammograms. The…
- Hex-A deficiency See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Di- A byproduct of the male hormone testosterone. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is considered to be the essential…
- Risk of recurrence In medical genetics, the chance that a genetic (inherited) disease present in a family will recur in that…
- Neuralgia, sphenopalatine A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Apiphobia Fear of bees. A phobia is an unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a…
- Thermostat A device that monitors temperature and automatically maintains it at certain levels. In a human, a tiny part…
- Sutton's law In medicine, the principle of going straight to the most likely diagnosis. The law is named for the bank…
- Treatment, symptomatic Therapy that eases the symptoms without addressing the basic cause of the disease. For example, symptomatic…
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…