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Unconscious
1. Interruption of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings, lack of the ability to notice or respond to stimuli in the environment. A person may become unconscious due to oxygen deprivation, shock, central nervous system depressants…
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Show more- Legg disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Weissenbacher-Zweymuller syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) A condition characterized by diffuse pain, swelling and limitation of movement that follows an injury such as…
- Hormone, parathormone Hormone made by the parathyroid gland (behind the thyroid gland in the neck). Parathormone (pronounced…
- Cloning, therapeutic See: Therapeutic cloning
- Multiple lentigines syndrome See: LEOPARD syndrome
- Testicular feminization syndrome Now more appropriately called the complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, this is a genetic disorder that…
- Syndrome A set of signs and symptoms that tend to occur together and which reflect the presence of a particular…
- Tropical typhus See Typhus, scrub
- Foot drop See Foot-drop
- HHV-5 Human herpesvirus 5. See cytomegalovirus.
- Journal, medical, first American The first U.S. medical journal, the Medical Repository was founded in 1797 and published quarterly until…