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Kyphosis, postmenopausal cervical
An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the back of the neck. This condition, once thought to be a characteristic deformity of older women, was called a dowager's hump. A…
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Show more- Erythrocyte A cell that contains hemoglobin and can carry oxygen to the body. Also called a red blood cell (RBC). The…
- Gland, tarsal See: Meibomian gland
- Lipid profile Pattern of lipids in the blood. (A lipid profile usually includes the total cholesterol, high density…
- Conditioning 1) Exercise and practice to build the body up for either improved normal performance, as in physical therapy…
- Bromism A disease caused by chronic exposure to bromine or one of its compounds. Bromism is characterized by mental…
- Leucemia A different spelling of leukemia, cancer of the blood cells. The growth and development of the blood cells…
- FLAP A gene that helps make a leukotriene, a signal that activates the white blood cells involved in inflammation…
- Calor, dolor, rubor, and tumor Heat, pain, redness, and swelling. The four classical signs of inflammation, originally recorded by the Roman…
- Syndrome, popliteal pterygium See Popliteal web syndrome
- Caudal anesthesia Anesthesia produced by injection of a local anesthetic into the caudal canal, the sacral portion of the…
- Mite-borne typhus Scrub: typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Measles Measles: An acute and highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes…