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Patient-activated event recorder
See: Patient-activated cardiac event recorder
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- Homotrisomy Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…
- Primary cataract See: Cataract, primary
- Interstitial cystitis (IC) Disease that involves inflammation or irritation of the bladder wall. This inflammation can lead to scarring…
- Pneumonic plague Infection of the lungs by Yersina pestis, the bacterial agent that causes the plague, a disease of animals…
- Dyscalculia A specific developmental disability affecting a person's ability to conceptualize and perform mathematics…
- Gonad, female The female gonad, the ovary or 'egg sac', is one of a pair of reproductive glands in women. They are located…
- Cancer of the appendix See: Appendix cancer
- Meconium ileus Obstruction of the intestine (ileus) due to overly thick meconium, the dark sticky stuff that is normally…
- Splenectomy An operation to remove the spleen
- Painful vulva Also called essential vulvodynia, a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the…
- Shingle In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease…