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Tuberculosis, pulmonary
Tuberculosis (TB) infecting the lungs. This is the most common form of active TB. It can be easily transmitted to others when someone who has it coughs
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Show more- NCCS National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
- Scales, body fat See: Bioelectric impedance analysis
- Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst of Diabetes and Digestive Igestive and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Conditioning 1) Exercise and practice to build the body up for either improved normal performance, as in physical therapy…
- First American medical school King's College Medical School founded in New York in 1767. Its mission was fairly lofty -- to 'enlarge the…
- Medical Repository The first medical magazine and the first scientific journal published in the United States. The Medical…
- Protein kinase A An enzyme system that is activated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and that catalyzes the activity…
- SLV Sapporo-like virus. See: Sapovirus
- Participant 1. In a clinical trial, someone who takes part in it. A participant may or may not have a disease. The term…
- Frenum A restraining structure. Frenum is Latin for a bridle. A small frenum is a frenulum
- Recreational water illness An illness that is spread by swallowing, breathing, or having contact with contaminated water from swimming…
- Diuresis The increased formation of urine by the kidney. See diuretic for more detail