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Holoprosencephaly
A relatively common birth defect of the brain, which often also affects facial features, causing closely spaced eyes, small head size, and sometimes clefts of the lip and roof of the mouth. Not all individuals with holoprosencephaly (HPE)…
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Show more- Day sight Night blindness. Listed in medical dictionaries under 'Nyctalopia' from the Greek 'nyct' (night) + 'aloas'…
- Belly pain Pain in the abdomen. See: Abdominal pain
- Foot pain Foot pain: Foot pain is the sensation of discomfort in the foot arising from disorders or injury to any of…
- Sexually transmitted disease Any disease transmitted by sexual contact; caused by microorganisms that survive on the skin or mucus…
- Inflammatory bowel disease A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Cephalgia Headache. (One of those things we all know but that defies an easy definition.) Literally, headache is an…
- Asthmatic 1. Pertaining to asthma as, for example, asthmatic bronchitis.2. A person with asthma
- Malady From the French maladie for illness.
- Male internal genitalia The internal genital structures of the male that are concerned with reproduction, including the testis…
- Tibia vara Improper growth of the tibia in the leg, causing bowlegs or other leg problems. The tibia may bow anteriorly…
- Qid (on prescription) A Chinese herb (also called sweet wormwood) from which is extracted the antimalarial agent artemisinin.
- Dolor 1. Pain, one of the four classic signs of inflammation (together with calor, rubor and tumor). 2. By…