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Intertrigo
A superficial skin disorder involving any area of the body where opposing skin surfaces may touch and rub, such as the creases of the neck, the skin folds of the groin, axilla (armpit) and breasts (especially if large and pendulous) and…
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- Snuff Tobacco in the form of a powder that is inhaled into the nose, not smoked. Snuff and chewing tobacco are the…
- Parentalism A parent's attitude of dominance over one or more children. For example, a parent stating 'I'm the boss…
- Cephalgia Headache. (One of those things we all know but that defies an easy definition.) Literally, headache is an…
- Asn Asparagine. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Up-regulation See: Upregulation
- Guillain-Barre syndrome See: Guillain-Barré syndrome.
- Hypercalcemia A higher-than-normal level of calcium in the blood. This can cause a number of nonspecific symptoms…
- Papilla, cancer of Cancer of: Cancer of a structure called the papilla or ampulla of Vater, a small muscle located at the…
- Glomerular Pertaining to the glomerulus, a tiny structure in the kidney that filters the blood to form urine
- Fetal mortality rate The ratio of fetal deaths divided by the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year…
- Hypotension Any blood pressure that is below the normal expected for an individual in a given environment. Hypotension is…