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Retinoic acid syndrome
A syndrome that occurs from treatment with retinoic acid and is characterized by fever, dyspnea (difficulty breathing), chest pain, lung infiltrates evident on chest X-ray, pleural and pericardial effusions (fluid around the lungs and…
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Show more- Chorion The outermost of the two fetal membranes - the amnion is the innermost --. which together surround the…
- Age by decade >Denarian: Someone age 10 to 19. >Vicenarian: Someone in his or her twenties. >Tricenarian: Someone in his or…
- Serendipity An accidental and fortunate discovery. Not all good medical research by any means is done by design. Some is…
- Tear gland The gland that makes tears. An abnormality of the tear glands can impair the production of the tears and lead…
- Hepatitis, toxic Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) caused by an industrial chemical such as carbon tetrachloride or…
- Lumbar Referring to the 5 lumbar vertebrae which are situated below the thoracic vertebrae and above the sacral…
- Peroneal muscular atrophy See: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- CRAC1 Colorectal adenoma and carcinoma 1. Also called hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. See: Hereditary mixed…
- Erythrocyte membrane protein band 4.1 (EPB41) See Elliptocytosis
- HCM Abbreviation for hematocrit. The hematocrit is the proportion, by volume, of the blood that consists of red…
- Chondroplasia The formation of cartilage by specialized cells called chondrocytes
- Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid