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A skin abscess, a collection of pus that forms inside the body. Antibiotics are often not very helpful in treating abscesses. The main treatments include hot packs and draining ('lancing') the abscess, but only when it is soft and ready to…
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Show more- Wolfram syndrome A genetic neurodegenerative disease that leads to many different abnormalities including diabetes insipidus…
- Lycanthropy The delusion that one has become a wolf or the werewolf transformation. Werewolf myths were associated with…
- Sedative A drug that calms a patient down, easing agitation and permitting sleep. Sedatives generally work by…
- Disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Abbreviated nvCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform…
- Peritoneum The membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and covers most of the abdominal organs. (From the Greek peri-…
- Ilium The upper part of the bony pelvis which forms the receptacle for the head of the femur at the hip joint. The…
- ABR (auditory brainstem response) Abbreviation for auditory brainstem response. See: ABR test
- Hypochondriasm See: Hypochondriasis
- Vesicular Pertaining to the presence of one or more vesicles. A vesicle is a small blister. A vesicular rash features…
- Malariology The study of malaria. Someone who is versed in malariology is a malariologist
- Mutilating keratoderma See: Vohwinkel syndrome
- Occupational Safety and Health, Nat'l Institut for Better known as NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is a US Federal agency…