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Ciliary neuralgia
A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical patterns of cluster headache -- the episodic and the chronic: > >Episodic: This is the most common pattern of cluster headache. It is…
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Show more- DEA Every prescription written in the United States bears a DEA number, that of the prescribing doctor, the DEA…
- Heteroploid A different chromosome number than the normal number of chromosomes
- Infection, ear (acute middle) Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Plague, Great The 'Great Plague' that swept London in 1665 was probably not really the plague but rather typhus. The plague…
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome See: Stewart, Alice.
- Familial dysautonomia A genetic disorder of the autonomic nervous system, affecting especially Ashkenazi Jewish children. Familial…
- Crohn's disease Crohn's disease: A chronic inflammatory disease, primarily involving the small and large intestine, but which…
- NHLBI Stands for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health in the…
- Cardiac insufficiency See: Heart failure
- Midgut volvulus See: Volvulus
- Mutation, acquired See: Acquired mutation.
- Psychoneuroimmunology The study of the connections between the mind and the neural, immune and endocrine (hormonal) systems. The…