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The excessive and uncontrollable use of foul or obscene language, including words related to feces (bowel waste). Coprolalia is a typical symptom of Tourette syndrome, a condition that has its onset in childhood and is characterized by…
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- Dobelle See: Dobelle, William
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- Dioscorides Dioscorides of Anazarbus. First century Greek physician, botanist and pharmacologist whose encyclopedia of…
- Care, critical See: Critical care
- Thrombosis, cavernous sinus A cavernous sinus thrombosis is a blood clot within the cavernous sinus, a large channel of venous blood in a…
- Medication, antimicrobial A drug used to treat a microbial infection. Antimicrobial is a general term that refers to a group of drugs…
- Medifast diet The Medifast diet is a low-fat, low-calorie weight loss plan based upon the consumption of specific foods and…
- RNA virus, positive-strand See: Positive-strand RNA virus
- Shunt, triculoperitoneal A shunt that drains fluid from the cerebral ventricle into the abdomen.
- Dizziness, anxiety as a cause of One cause of dizziness is overbreathing (hyperventilation) due to anxiety. The overbreathing also causes…
- Da Vinci, Leonardo The father of anatomic art. The architect, scientist, engineer, inventor, poet, sculptor and painter…