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Cancer, kidney
Malignancy of the kidney, the organ that is primarily responsible for the removal of metabolic products from the body. The types of kidney cancer in adults and children are different and distinct: > >Adults -- Kidney cancer tends to occur…
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Show more- Obverse The opposite, the opposite side, the counterpart. For example, mania is thought of as the obverse of…
- JAK3 inhibitor A drug that inhibits the enzyme JAK3 (which is found only in immune cells) and acts as an immunosuppressant
- Petasites vulgaris See: Butterbur
- Fever, tick See: Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Ice cream headache A headache that occurs when one puts ice, a cold food or chilled beverage in the mouth. Ice cream is by far…
- Ovary, polycystic See: Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Weissenbacher-Zweymuller syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Hallucination A profound distortion in a person's perception of reality, typically accompanied by a powerful sense of…
- Mutism, elective Complete lack of speech (mutism) that is believed to be volitional (willed) on the part of the patient. True…
- Marasmus Wasting away, as occurs with children who have kwashiorkor. Also called cachexia, is usually a result of…
- Peliosis hepatis A rare condition in which the liver contains multiple, randomly-distributed blood-filled spaces or cavities…
- Disease, Quincke's This is angioneurotic edema (or angioedema), a form of localized swelling of the deeper layers of the skin…