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Raynaud's disease
Condition resulting in skin discoloration of the fingers and/or toes when a person is exposed to changes in temperature (cold or hot) or to emotional events. This condition can occur alone or as a part of another disease (such as…
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Show more- Carb Slang for carbohydrate. Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of…
- Regurgitation, mitral See: Mitral regurgitation
- Acute renal failure Sudden and often temporary loss of kidney function. Also called acute kidney failure. As opposed to chronic…
- Trichomonas A single-celled protozoan parasite best known in medicine because one species causes vaginitis (vaginal…
- Memory, anterograde See: Anterograde memory
- Nerve block See: Neuron.
- Multislice computed tomography See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Cholera genome The genome of the bacterium called Vibrio cholerae that causes cholera. This genome contains over 4 million…
- Black American See: African American
- Intractable Unstoppable. For example, intractable diarrhea or intractable pain.
- Syndrome, hemolytic uremic See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.
- Dizziness, anxiety as a cause of One cause of dizziness is overbreathing (hyperventilation) due to anxiety. The overbreathing also causes…