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Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
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- Thyroid scan Thyroid scan: An image taken of the thyroid gland after radioactive iodine is taken by mouth. The thyroid…
- Gingivitis, acute membranous This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Pecs Slang for the pectoral muscles, muscles of the 'anterior chest' (the front of the chest). The Latin 'pectus'…
- Humoralism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Smallpox vaccination of fetus See Congenital vaccinia
- Ear, malrotated See Ear, slanted
- DNA repair The body has a series of special enzymes to repair mutations (changes) in the DNA and restore the DNA to its…
- Meniscus, lateral knee The word 'meniscus' refers to a crescent-shaped structure. The lateral meniscus of the knee is a thickened…
- Multiple system failure The failure of two or more systems in the body as, for example, the cardiovascular and renal systems…
- SMA Spinal muscular atrophy
- Familial cancer Cancer or a predisposition (tendency) to it that runs in families.