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- Syndrome, Gulf War See: Gulf War syndrome
- Injure To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emotional sense. Treadmill machines may injure…
- Infant vitamin requirements Vitamins are organic substances that are essential in minute quantities for the proper growth, maintenance…
- Amini, Fariborz Iranian-born American psychiatrist (1930-2004), at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), known…
- Gynecology The branch of medicine particularly concerned with the health of the female organs of reproduction and…
- James Watson See: Watson, James
- Clip A device used to hold something or things together. A surgical clip may be used to prevent a blood vessel…
- Natriuresis The excretion of an excessively large amount of sodium in the urine. Natriuresis is similar to diuresis (the…
- Metabolic diseases, inherited Also called inborn errors of metabolism, these are heritable (genetic) disorders of biochemistry. Examples…
- Nine-day measles An acute highly contagious viral disease with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, and a spreading skin rash…
- Calcaneus The calcaneus is the heel bone. It is also called the os calcis. The calcaneus is a more or less rectangular…