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Histamine cephalalgia
A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common pattern of cluster headache is termed 'episodic' and is characterized by 1-3 short attacks of pain each day around the eyes, clustered…
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- Abortive The word 'abortive' has a number of meanings including prematurely born; fruitless or unsuccessful…
- Colorectal adenoma and carcinoma 1 Abbreviated CRAC1. Also known as hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. See: Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome
- Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome Abbreviated HPS. A genetic disorder characterized by albinism (with lack of pigment in the skin or eye)…
- Angioplasty Procedure with a balloon-tipped catheter to enlarge a narrowing in a coronary artery. Also called…
- Syndrome, Reye A sudden, sometimes fatal, disease of the brain (encephalopathy) with degeneration of the liver, occurs in…
- Seborrhea Seborrhea: A chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by the accumulation of scales of greasy…
- Symmetric lipomatosis, multiple A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper…
- Essential vulvodynia A chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the female external genital organs…
- Pulmonary therapy Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic…
- Myriad A great number, a very large number, a huge number of something. There are, for example, myriad ways in which…
- Cryotherapy Cryotherapy: Literally, 'cold therapy.' Cryotherapy, sometimes referred to as cryosurgery, is a procedure…