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Synovial chondromatosis
A disorder of a joint featuring a change of the normal joint lining (synovium) tissue's cellular structure to form cartilage tissue. Synovial chondromatosis is rare. Synovial chondromatosis leads to pain in the affected joint as well as…
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Show more- ART (antiretroviral therapy) Treatment that suppresses or stops a retrovirus. One of the retrovirus is the human immunodeficiency virus…
- Smallpox vaccination in eczema See Eczema vaccinatum
- Multiple abortions Two or more miscarriages (spontaneous abortions) by a woman. Couples who have had multiple abortions have…
- Reservoir, Ommaya A device implanted under the scalp that is used to deliver anticancer drugs to the cerebrospinal fluid, the…
- Syndrome, myelodysplastic See: Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Spermatogonial stem cell See: Sperm stem cell
- Cyanotic Showing cyanosis (bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to not enough oxygen in the…
- Employment Retirement Income Security Act See: ERISA
- Sore, cold A small sore situated on the face or in the mouth that causes pain, burning, or itching before bursting and…
- Congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation See: Clasped thumbs and mental retardation
- Snip A single base change, a change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that…
- Disease, congenital heart A malformation of the heart or the large blood vessels near the heart. The term 'congenital' speaks only to…