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Yeast syndrome
The yeast Candida has been thought to cause a syndrome with a number of nonspecific problems including fatigue, loss of appetite, headache, short-attention span, depression and all manner of intestinal irregularities. There is no…
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Show more- SLS (Sjogren-Larsson syndrome) The Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical…
- Cretinism Congenital hypothyroidism (underactivity of the thyroid gland at birth) resulting in growth retardation…
- Muscle, supraspinatus >The supraspinatus muscle; >The subscapularis muscle, which moves the arm by turning it inward (internal…
- Internal pacemaker Pacemaker: A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm…
- Flatulence Excess gas in the intestinal tract. But excess flatulence is difficult to define without a yardstick to…
- Condition, Sever Inflammation of the growth plate of the calcaneus, the bone at the back of the heel. The inflammation is at…
- Quasidiploid Describing a cell that seems to have the usual two full sets of 23 chromosomes, but does not. Many malignant…
- Tendinitis Inflammation of a tendon (the tissue by which muscle attaches to bone). Tendinitis most commonly occurs as a…
- Mathematics disorder A condition characterized by math skills that are significantly below normal, given the person's age…
- ROMA Representational oligonucleotide microarray analysis. A method for the detection of genomic aberrations…
- Exfoliation syndrome See: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome
- Kidney One of a pair of organs located in the right and left side of the abdomen which clear 'poisons' from the…