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Breakbone fever
An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache, fever, prostration, severe joint and muscle pain, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and rash. The presence (the 'dengue triad') of…
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Show more- Karyotyping The preparation, analysis, and interpretation of a karyotype
- MCHC Abbreviation for mean cell hemoglobin concentration, which is the average concentration of hemoglobin in a…
- Popcorn worker lung See: Popcorn worker's lung
- Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis An inherited predisposition to colorectal cancer characterized by fewer than 100 adenomatous polyps in the…
- Mucosa Having to do with a mucous membrane. For example, the oral mucosa.
- Mediterranean anemia Better known today as thalassemia (or as beta thalassemia or thalassemia major). The clinical picture of this…
- Leptospirosis Leptospirosis: An infectious disease caused by a particular type of bacteria called a spirochete transmitted…
- Masticate To chew, grind, or pulverize food (or something else) until it turns to pulp. From the Latin masticare, from…
- Am Symbol for americium
- Tid (on prescription) Seen on a prescription, tid means three times a day. It is an abbreviation for 'ter in die' which in Latin…
- Abortion, habitual The miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies. The abortion of 3 or more miscarriages (spontaneous…
- Human herpesvirus 4 See Epstein-Barr virus.