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Steroid abuse
Steroid abuse: Use of substances containing anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass. Such steroids can have many side effects when misused, including psychiatric problems, liver tumors, reduction in the size of the male genitals and…
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- Homotrisomy Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…
- Diabetic eye disease 1. A disease of the small blood vessels of the retina of the eye in people with diabetes. The vessels swell…
- Darier disease A genetic skin disease characterized by slowly progressive hardening of the skin (keratoses) around the hair…
- Intraocular pressure The pressure created by the continual renewal of fluids within the eye. The intraocular pressure is increased…
- Fever, desert A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…
- Reagent A substance used to produce a chemical reaction to detect, measure, produce, etc. other substances
- Colorectal adenomatous polyposis, recessive Autosomal recessive form of colorectal adenomatous polyposis, See: MYH
- MND Motor neuron disease
- Mycelia An array of fungal filaments which was thought to resemble a display of decorative nails. From the Greek…
- Laryngeal papillomatosis Laryngeal papillomatosis is the growth of numerous warty growths on the vocal cords. The disease is most…
- Greenstick fracture A fracture in which one side of a bone is broken while the other is bent (like a green stick). NTER>