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Measles syndrome, atypical (AMS)
Measles syndrome, atypical (AMS): An altered expression of measles, AMS begins suddenly with high fever, headache, cough, and abdominal pain. The rash may appear 1 to 2 days later, often beginning on the limbs. Swelling (edema) of the…
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- Rate, neonatal mortality The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The…
- Neuralgia, sphenopalatine A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Congenital retraction syndrome See: Duane syndrome
- Glucocorticoid A hormone that predominantly affects the metabolism of carbohydrates and, to a lesser extent, fats and…
- Synapsis The side-by-side and point-by-point pairing of homologous chromosomes during meiosis
- Agreement, arbitration See: Arbitration agreement
- Vitamin B -- pantothenic acid This is one of the less well known B vitamins, perhaps because it is widely distributed in nature…
- Eosinophilic fasciitis (Shulman syndrome) A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue…
- Koch's postulates In 1890 the German physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch set out his celebrated criteria for judging…
- Syphilis, tertiary The third stage of syphilis, in which the syphilis spirochetes infect the brain and other organs of the body…
- Afterbirth The placenta + the fetal membranes that are normally expelled from the uterus after the birth of the baby…