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Meibomian cyst
A cyst of the little glands called Meibomian glands that are located in the eyelids and make a lubricant they discharge through their tiny openings in the edges of the lids. The lubricant is a fatty substance called sebum characteristic of…
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- Iatr- Prefix relating to a physician or medicine. An iatrogenic illness is one inadvertently caused by a physician…
- Sprained ankle Sprained ankle: See: Ankle sprain.
- MCPH1 Microcephalin 1
- Fish-odor syndrome An inborn error of metabolism associated with an offensive body odor, the smell of rotting fish, due to the…
- Cancer, bone A malignancy in bone. Primary bone cancer, one that begins in bone, is uncommon but it is not unusual for a…
- Diabetic spinal cord disease Involvement of the spinal cord in diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus has focused…
- Anaptic Suffering from an impaired sense of touch, (a state called anaphia) or tactile anesthesia. An anaptic person…
- Designer estrogen An engineered drug that possesses some, but not all, of the actions of estrogen. Designer estrogens are…
- PKU See Maternal phenylketonuria.
- Gaucher disease, types 2-5 A series of disease due to glucocerebrosidase deficiency and accumulation of glucocerebroside in cells. By…
- Intestine, small The tubelike organ that receives the products of digestion from the stomach. It has three parts, the…