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Fireworks injury
An injury from a device for producing a striking display by the combustion of explosive or flammable compositions. Since fireworks are often used around holidays, fireworks injuries tend to cluster about holidays and can spoil them. All…
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Show more- Dysarthria Speech that is characteristically slurred, slow, and difficult to produce (difficult to understand). The…
- Anti-platelet agents Medications that, like aspirin, reduce the tendency of platelets in the blood to clump and clot
- ERT (estrogen replacement therapy) Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) is used to treat menopause. It reduces or stops the short-term changes of…
- Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood See: Minimal change disease
- Disinsection Spraying aircraft for insects, a procedure called disinsection. Some countries in Africa, Latin America, the…
- Poland syndactyly A unique pattern of one-sided malformations characterized by a defect of the chest (pectoralis) muscle on one…
- Radiation therapy, external Radiation therapy in which the source of radiation is a machine outside the body
- Synapsis The side-by-side and point-by-point pairing of homologous chromosomes during meiosis
- Angiogenesis The process of developing new blood vessels. Angiogenesis is important in the normal development of the…
- Painful vulva Also called essential vulvodynia, a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the…
- Psittacosis (parrot fever) Fever: An infectious disease due to a bacteria (Chlamydia psittaci) contracted from psittacine birds…
- Differential white cell count The proportions of the different types of white cells in the blood, usually split into the different types of…