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MPS
Abbreviation for mucopolysaccharidosis
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- Marsh fever See malaria
- Mastocytoma A form of mastocytosis characterized by a benign nodular skin tumor infiltrated by mast cells. Usually…
- Syndrome, Rendu-Osler-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- PEG Stands for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, a surgical procedure for placing a feeding tube without…
- Thanatophoric dysplasia A form of short-limbed (micromelic) dwarfism that usually causes death within the first few hours after…
- Meningitis, Kernig sign of This clinical hallmark of meningitis, inflammation of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and…
- Tabes dorsalis Slowly progressive degeneration of the spinal cord that occurs in the tertiary (third) phase of syphilis a…
- Herpes A family of viruses. Herpes also refers to infection with one of the human herpesviruses, especially herpes…
- X-ray, PA An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from back-to-front (posteroanterior). By contrast an AP…
- Galactosemia A genetic metabolic disease in which there is a defect in the body's ability to use the sugar galactose. In…