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Dactylitis
Inflammation of a digit (either a finger or a toe). Dactyl comes from the Greek 'daktylos' meaning 'finger.' It now refers not only to the fingers but also the toes. Dactyledema is edema (swelling) of the fingers or toes; dactylomegaly is…
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Show more- Occam's razor The principle of scientific or, in medicine, diagnostic parsimony or 'unitarianism.' In medicine, a clinician…
- Factor V A coagulation factor needed for the normal clotting of blood. Also known as proaccelerin
- Genome, Mus musculus All of the genetic information contained in Mus musculus, the laboratory mouse. The genomes of particular…
- Long arm of a chromosome The long arm of a chromosome is termed the q arm. All human chromosomes have 2 arms, the p (short) arm and…
- Bronchopulmonary Pertaining to both the air passages (bronchi) leading to the lungs and the lungs (pulmonary) themselves
- Incontinent Unable to control excretions, to hold urine in the bladder or keep feces in the rectum. This is the usual…
- Lens The transparent structure inside the eye that focuses light rays onto the retina (the nerve layer that lines…
- Vaginal introitus The vaginal opening is called the introitus of the vagina. The Latin word 'introitus' comes from 'intro'…
- Muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral A form of muscular dystrophy that begins before age 20 with slowly progressive weakness of the muscles of the…
- Apiphobia Fear of bees. A phobia is an unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a…
- Klinefelter syndrome Klinefelter syndrome: A chromosome condition in boys and men that is usually due to 47 chromosomes with XXY…
- Dystonia musculorum deformans (DMD) Also called torsion dystonia, this is a fortunately rare, generalized dystonia (a state of abnormal -- either…