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Peyronie disease
A syndrome of craniosynostosis (premature fusion of the cranial sutures) due to mutation in FGFR (fibroblast growth factor receptor) characterized by bulging eyes (proptosis) due to shallow eye sockets, underdevelopment of the midface and…
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- Trinucleotide A sequence of 3 base pairs; a triplet of bases. The gene code is made up of trinucleotides
- Fever of Unknown Origin Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a fever greater than 38.3°C (101 °F) that has occurred intermittently for…
- Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute One of the National Institutes of Health, NIAAA's mission is to 'conduct research focused on improving the…
- Strabismus Strabismus: A condition in which the visual axes of the eyes are not parallel and the eyes appear to be…
- McKusick-Kaufman syndrome A genetic disorder in which there is build-up of fluids (called hydrometrocolpos) in the vagina and the…
- Computerized axial tomography (CAT) Cat scanning adds X-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional views anatomy. It can…
- Vibration white finger The original name for a painful and potentially disabling condition of the fingers, hans, and arms due to…
- Medication, antimicrobial A drug used to treat a microbial infection. Antimicrobial is a general term that refers to a group of drugs…
- Deoxyhemoglobin The form of hemoglobin without oxygen, the predominant protein in red blood cells. Hemoglobin forms an…
- Disease, Ritter This is the scalded skin syndrome, a potentially serious side effect of infection with the Staph…
- Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…