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Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis involves the growth of numerous warty growths in the larynx on the vocal cords in children and young adults. A baby can contract recurrent respiratory papillomatosis by being contaminated with the human…
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Show more- Impetigo Impetigo: A bacterial skin infection caused by the staphylococcus or, more rarely,streptococcus bacteria. The…
- Incase A term once used to refer to the medical case of an inpatient
- Os sacrum The large, heavy bone at the base of the spine, which is made up of fused sacral vertebrae. The sacrum is…
- Physiologic stress test Stress test: Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic…
- Yersinia pestis genome See: Plague bacterium genome
- Beaded vitreous type Stickler syndrome Stickler syndrome, type II. See: Stickler syndrome
- Salvage therapy 1. A final treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a…
- Nerve, eleventh cranial The eleventh cranial nerve is the accessory nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the accessory nerve included…
- SMA Spinal muscular atrophy
- Deficiency, FALDH Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- Lymphadenopathy virus Another name for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. HIV has also been called the…
- Alpha thalassemia Alpha thalassemia: A blood disorder, thalassemia is not one disease but rather a group of disorders that have…