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MRDM
Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus. See: Tropical diabetes
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- Histoplasmosis A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms…
- Emergency physician A physician focused on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further…
- Anastomosis The connection of normally separate parts or spaces so they intercommunicate. An anastomosis may be naturally…
- Myc- The plural of mycelium.
- Caudate nucleus In each hemisphere of the brain, the most medial of the four basal ganglia, partly responsible for body…
- Oligo- (prefix) Means just a few or scanty. From the Greek 'oligos', few, scanty. Examples of terms starting with oligo-…
- Aneurysm, brain An aneurysm is a localized widening (dilatation) of an artery, vein, or the heart. At the area of an…
- ANUG (acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis) This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Induction therapy Therapy: Treatment designed as a first step toward reducing the number of cancer cells. Often just referred…
- Adduction Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. The opposite of adduction is abduction. An adductor muscle…
- Vidian neuralgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…