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Sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis: A disease of unknown origin that causes small lumps (granulomas) due to chronic inflammation to develop in a great range of body tissues. Sarcoidosis can appear in almost any body organ, but most often starts in the lungs or…
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Show more- Dystonia, focal, due to blepharospasm See: Focal dystonia due to blepharospasm
- Straight jacket See: Straitjacket
- DTP Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis vaccine
- Plexus, brachial See: Brachial plexus
- Hirudotherapy The use of leeches for medical therapy. Sometimes referred to as the 'treatment that sucks.' From hirudin…
- Prostatodynia A type of inflammation of the prostate not due to bacterial infection and in which there are no objective…
- Hematoma An abnormal localized collection of blood in which the blood is usually clotted or partially clotted and is…
- Prepuce The fold of skin that covers the head of the penis. Also known as the foreskin. Only about 1 in every 20 boys…
- Glanders A bacterial infection that causes a chronic debilitating disease of equids (horses, mules, and donkeys) as…
- Histoplasmosis A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms…
- Laryngectomy Surgery to remove part or all of the larynx is a partial or total laryngectomy. In either operation, the…
- Cancer of the vulva An uncommon cancer of women in which the malignancy is in the vulva, the outer part of the vagina, that…