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Granulomatosis, allergic
A disease (also more commonly called the Churg-Straus syndrome) characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels in persons with a history of asthma or allergy. The symptoms of the Churg-Strauss syndrome include fatigue, weight loss…
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Show more- Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) A virus often referred to simply as the human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV). HTLV-II stands for human…
- Cardiac transplant See: Heart transplant
- Pancreatitis, acute See: Acute pancreatitis
- OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) See: Oscillopsia.
- Nature (journal) The name of a venerable British scientific journal that has over the past century or so published much of…
- Low tension glaucoma See: Glaucoma, normal tension
- Medical physics The science of human health and radiation exposure. Medical physics, also called health physics, is devoted…
- TPA See: Tissue plasminogen activator
- Paralysis, sleep Sleep: A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to…
- Epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR
- Randomly In a random manner, as by chance alone. The participants in the trial were randomly assigned to receive…
- Plague genome All of the DNA (the genome) of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, consisting of four rings…