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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
An inherited disorder featuring short recurring crises of severe abdominal pain and bouts of fever. Other symptoms include arthritis, chest pain from inflammation of the lung cavity, and skin rashes. Between attacks, the patient seems…
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Show more- Hydrops fetalis Gross edema (swelling), usually with anemia, of the fetus. It can be due to Rh blood group incompatibility…
- Erb palsy A form of brachial plexus palsy in which there is paralysis of the muscles of the upper arm and shoulder…
- Amino acids The building blocks of polypeptides and proteins
- Muir-Torre syndrome A genetic syndrome characterized by a combination of sebaceous tumors of the skin and one or more internal…
- Addison disease Addison disease: Long-term underfunction of the outer portion of the adrenal gland. In medical terms, chronic…
- Penis, inflammation of the head of the Inflammation of the rounded head (the glans) of the penis is called balanitis. In the uncircumcised male…
- Forensic medicine The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal…
- Serositis Inflammation of the serous tissues of the body. The serous tissues line the lungs (pleura), heart…
- PCBs PolyChlorinated Biphenyls, a mixture of up to 209 chlorinated chemicals. Although PCBs are no longer produced…
- Nerve, trigeminal This nerve functions both as the chief nerve of sensation for the face and as the motor nerve controlling the…
- Phacoemulsification A procedure in which the lens clouded by a cataract is broken up by ultrasound, irrigated, and suctioned out…
- Sideropenic dysphagia See: Plummer-Vinson syndrome