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Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
A genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead, they are born looking externally like normal girls. Internally, there is a short blind-pouch vagina and no uterus, fallopian tubes…
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- Spina bifida occulta A bony defect in the vertebral column that causes a cleft in that column. The cleft remains covered by skin…
- St. Joseph Moscati See: Moscati, St. Joseph
- Morbus gallicus The French disease. Syphilis. The name 'syphilis' was coined by Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo…
- Metabolic syndrome Metabolic syndrome: A constellation of conditions that place people at high risk for coronary artery disease…
- DNA, coding A sequence of DNA that codes for protein. Coding DNA sequences are separated by long regions of DNA called…
- Shingle In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease…
- Insufficiency, coronary See: Coronary insufficiency
- Cranial nerve, seventh The seventh cranial nerve is the facial nerve, a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in…
- Nirenberg See: Nirenberg, Marshall W.
- Foreskin, inflammation of the Inflammation of the foreskin of the penis (the prepuce) is called posthitis. In the uncircumcised male…
- Stomach flu So-called 'stomach flu' actually has nothing to do with the influenza (flu) virus. This term is sometimes…