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Disease, Tsutsugamushi
Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an…
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Show more- Phenylalanine An essential amino acid. (The human body cannot make it so it is essential to the diet.) Phenylalanine that…
- Moral behavior center An area of the brain in what is known as the prefrontal cortex. Children who suffer damage before 16 months…
- Mallet The malleus
- Late infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy See: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Surgery The word 'surgery' has multiple meanings. It is the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions…
- Restenosis Renarrowing, as in restenosis of a coronary artery after angioplasty. From the Greek 'stenos' meaning narrow
- Stiff baby syndrome A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- Human Genome Project International effort aimed at identifying and sequencing (ordering) all of the bases in the human genome…
- Immunization, rubella See Immunization, MMR.
- Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet The Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet is a weight loss plan based upon the concept that your blood type (referring…
- Hemoglobin F Normal fetal hemoglobin, the predominant type of hemoglobin in the fetus and newborn. The F stands for Fetal.
- Golfer's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs when playing golf…