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Glanders
A bacterial infection that causes a chronic debilitating disease of equids (horses, mules, and donkeys) as well as some members of the cat family and is transmissible to people. The bacterium responsible for glanders is Burkholderia mallei…
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- Papillomatosis, juvenile laryngeal Juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis involves the growth of numerous warty growths on the vocal cords in…
- Idiopathic scoliosis A "wastepaper basket" for those cases of immune thrombocytopenic purpura whose cause is still unknown. See…
- Coated stent Also known as a medicated stent. A tiny cage coated with a drug to prop open an artery and prevent it from…
- Ataxia telangiectasia mutated See: ATM
- Myeloid leukemia, acute Myeloid leukemia, acute: A quickly progressive malignant disease in which there are too many immature…
- Code The genetic code is the correspondence between the triplet of bases in DNA with the amino acids. The…
- Fasciitis, eosinophilic (Shulman syndrome) A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue…
- Immune tolerance A state of unresponsiveness to a specific antigen or group of antigens to which a person is normally…
- Fear of travel An irrational and unreasonable fear of travel is called agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is a very complex phobia. It…
- Guided imagery An alternative medicine technique in which patients use their imagination to visualize improved health, or to…