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Angina, Vincent
Angina, Vincent: This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform…
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Show more- Bernstein test A test to find out if heartburn is caused by acid in the esophagus and so to diagnose GERD (gastroesophageal…
- Haploinsufficiency A situation in which the total level of a gene product (a particular protein) produced by the cell is about…
- Innervate To supply with nerves. It is a little known fact that the cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the…
- Hereditary angioneurotic edema Edema: A genetic form of angioedema. (Angioedema is also referred to as Quinke's disease.) Persons with it…
- Skin graft, porcine A skin graft in which pig skin is used. Like grafts from human donors, porcine grafts are usually just a…
- Lanugo Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair…
- PEJ Percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy
- Race-based medication See: Race-based drug
- DNA, junk See: Junk DNA
- Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter White matter: An inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children. and follows a chronic progressive…
- Cyst, tarsal Also called a chalazion or a Meibomian cyst, an inflammation of the oil gland of the eyelid.
- Coarctation A narrowing, a stricture, a constriction. Although the best known coarctation is of the aorta, any artery can…