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Hip fracture
Broken bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of trauma involving direct impact to the hip bone which has been weakened by osteoporosis. The part of the hip most often broken is the…
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Show more- Bannayan syndrome A genetic disease characterized by macrocephaly (enlarged head), multiple lipomas (benign fatty tumors) and…
- Insufficiency, aortic See: Aortic insufficiency
- Disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Abbreviated nvCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform…
- Borborygmus Bowel sounds, the gurgling, rumbling, or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions…
- Eosinophilic leukocyte See: Eosinophil
- Canavan disease Canavan disease: A severe progressive inherited (genetic) disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). The…
- Fornication Sexual intercourse that is 'illicit', outside of marriage. The term 'fornication' has a close medical…
- Calculi The plural of calculus. (Calculi is the proper Latin plural. The alternate English plural is calculuses.
- Multisection CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Horace Barker See: Barker, Horace Albert
- Exonuclease An enzyme that cleaves nucleotide bases sequentially from the free ends of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA)
- Bone type One of the four basic bone shapes in the human skeleton -- long bones, short bones, flat bones, and irregular…