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Sweating, gustatory
Sweating on the forehead, face, scalp, and neck occurring soon after ingesting food. Some gustatory sweating is normal after eating hot, spicy foods. Otherwise, gustatory sweating is most commonly a result of damage to a nerve that goes to…
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Show more- Renal artery stenosis Renal artery stenosis: Narrowing of the major artery that supplies blood to the kidney. Renal artery stenosis…
- Underwater weighing A method for determining the lean body mass. This method weighs a person underwater and then calculates the…
- TMJ syndrome Disorder of the temporo-mandibular joint(s) causing pain usually in front of the ear(s).
- Pertussis Pertussis: Whooping cough, a communicable, potentially deadly illness characterized by fits of coughing…
- Tympano- Prefix indicating a relationship to the ear drum (tympanum). For example, tympanometry is a test that…
- Pancolitis Ulcerative colitis that involves the entire colon (the large intestine). Ulcerative colitis itself is a…
- Transport defect Within the body, many molecules are able to pass across the membranes that surround cells. These molecules…
- Hyperekplexia A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- Vesicles In dermatology, vesicles are small blisters, most often on the skin. Vesicles also can crop up on the mucous…
- Fear of the number 13 A morbid fear of the number 13. Also known as triskaidekaphobia. Written reference to the superstitious fear…
- Attenuated virus To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Pavlov stomach A Pavlov pouch fashioned surgically from part of the stomach (which is isolated from the rest of the…