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Gaucher disease, type 1
Gaucher disease, type 1: The most common and best known form of Gaucher disease. It affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow and spares the brain. The symptoms include enlargement of the spleen (usually the first sign), anemia, low blood…
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Show more- Saphenous vein, great The larger of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Ciliary muscle One of the muscles that relax the zonules to enable the lens to change shape for focusing. The zonules are…
- Sperm stem cell A cell that is incapable of fertilizing an egg cell but can give rise to cells that develop into sperm. Sperm…
- Roseola infantum Roseola infantum: Roseola infantum is another name for roseola, also formally called roseola infantilis. The…
- Mesmerism 1. Originally, a system of therapeutics propounded by Mesmer.2. A precursor of hypnotism, believed by Mesmer…
- GBV-C GB virus C, a virus first identified in 1995 that is genetically related to the hepatitis C virus but which…
- Emphysema Emphysema: 1) A lung condition featuring an abnormal accumulation of air in the lung's many tiny air sacs, a…
- Diabetes, non-insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2.
- Translocation 11 childhood leukemia A new type of childhood leukemia in which a piece of chromosome 11 has been translocated (broken off and…
- Southern tick-associated rash illness A disease characterized by a rash like that in Lyme disease, recognized in the southeastern and south-central…
- Tay-Sachs disease A genetic metabolic disorder caused by deficiency of the enzyme hexosaminidase A (hex-A) that results in a…
- XYY An extra Y chromosome in a male. See: XYY syndrome