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Lymphoma, Burkitt
See: Burkitt lymphoma
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- Annotation In genetics, the process of identifying the locations and coding regions of genes in a genome and determining…
- Venereal wart A wart that is confined primarily to the moist skin of the genitals. These warts are due to viruses belonging…
- Absinthism The disorder associated with the habitual abuse of absinthe. The symptoms included hallucinations…
- Blood poisoning The medical term is 'septicemia.' No matter which of these two terms-blood poisoning or septicemia-you…
- Echinococcosis Parasitic disease caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus. There are three forms of…
- Polydipsia Excessive thirst all the time. Polydipsia occurs, for example, in untreated or poorly controlled diabetes…
- Map-dot-fingerprint type corneal dystrophy A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows geographic map-like lines…
- Vesicointestinal See: Vesicoenteric
- Bursitis, knee Inflammation of a bursa of the knee joint. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface…
- Tube feeding See: Enteral nutrition
- Craniopagus Conjoined twins whose heads are fused together. From cranio-, relating to the cranium + the Greek pagos…