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Acrochordon
A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). An acrochordon may appear on skin anywhere although the favorite locales are the eyelids, neck, armpits (axillae), upper chest, and groin. Invariably benign, this tiny tumor of the…
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Show more- Medical school A school with a curriculum leading to a medical degree. The mission of every medical school includes medical…
- State, hypercoagulable A hypercoagulable state is the medical term for a condition in which there is an abnormally increased…
- Edema, lymphatic See: Lymphedema>
- Genome, Yersinia pestis See: Plague bacterium genome
- Forgotten disease Name sometimes given to Lemierre syndrome
- Prepatellar bursitis Inflammation of the bursa that is positioned in front of the kneecap (patella). Prepatellar bursitis commonly…
- Athymic Lacking a thymus gland
- Broken hip Fractured bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of…
- Osseous Having to do with the bone, consisting of bone, or resembling bone. From 'os' which is a synonym for 'bone.'…
- Health physics The science of human health and radiation exposure. Health physics, also called medical physics, is devoted…
- Infantile paralysis (polio) Infantile paralysis is an old synonym for poliomyelitis, an acute and sometimes devastating viral disease…
- Compassionate use Term used in the US for a method of providing experimental therapeutics prior to final FDA approval for use…