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Pseudodementia
A severe form of depression resulting from a progressive brain disorder in which cognitive changes mimic those of dementia
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- Salubrious Good for the health. Healthy. Promoting health or well-being. Wholesome. For example, smog is far from…
- Plexus 1. In medicine, a network or tangle of lymphatic vessels, nerves, or veins. For example, the brachial plexus…
- Lobe Part of an organ that appears to be separate in some way from the rest. A lobe may be demarcated from the…
- Medicine, legal See: Legal medicine
- Campylobacteriosis Disease caused by Campylobacter jejuni, now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning, most often spread…
- Fear of loneliness An abnormal and persistent fear of loneliness, of being alone. Sufferers of this fear experience undue…
- Parathyroid hormone See Parathormone
- Substance, pressor See: Pressor substance
- ASA (drug caution code) Abbreviation on a medication that indicates it contains acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). This special caution…
- Post-nasal drip Mucous accumulation in the back of the nose and throat leading to or giving the sensation of mucus dripping…
- Cystitis Inflammation of the bladder. Cystitis can be due for example to infection from bacteria that ascend the…