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His disease
This is a parasite (louse-borne) disease that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was called trench fever. It is estimated to have affected more than a million people in Russia and on the war fronts in Europe. Trench…
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Show more- Body, ciliary Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is…
- Shaken baby syndrome Syndrome: Ines, particularly to the head, caused by violently shaking an infant. The syndrome is the…
- VCJD Stands for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as…
- Syndrome, TAR TAR stands for Thrombocytopenia (low blood platelets) and Aplasia (absence) of the Radius (the long bone on…
- Hospital gown A short collarless gown that ties in the back, worn by patients being examined or treated in a doctor's…
- Water pore See: Aquaporin
- Medic Alert Originally,a bracelet that a person could wear to warn medical professionals in an emergency about a serious…
- Osteogenesis The production of bone
- Axis The axis is the second cervical vertebra (symbol: C2). It is called the 'axis' because the uppermost cervical…
- Cholescintigraphy Cholescintigraphy: A diagnostic test in which a two-dimensional picture of a radiation source in the biliary…
- Ninth cranial nerve The ninth cranial nerve is the glossopharyngeal nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Ectopic pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy: A pregnancy that is not in the uterus. The fertilized egg settles and grows in any…