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Acid, fatty
One of many molecules that are long chains of lipid-carboxylic acid found in fats and oils and in cell membranes as a component of phospholipids and glycolipids. (Carboxylic acid is an organic acid containing the functional group -COOH.)…
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- Lilliputian hallucination An hallucination in which things, people, or animals seem smaller than they would be in real life…
- Wt Weight. Wt 80 lbs = weight 80 pounds.
- Silver poisoning Silver poisoning, medically termed argyria, causes ashen gray discoloration of the skin (and other tissues of…
- Ocular histoplasmosis syndrome An eye disease that is a leading cause of vision loss, due to the spread of spores of the fungus Histoplasma…
- Cancer, myeloma A bone marrow cancer involving a type of white blood cell called a plasma (or myeloma) cell. The tumor cells…
- Rat-flea typhus Murine typhus, an acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder…
- Eclampsia Convulsions (seizures) occurring with pregnancy-associated high blood pressure and having no other cause
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- Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy See: Sentinel lymph node biopsy
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia Leukemia: Abbreviated JMML. A rare cancer of the myeloid cells in the bone marrow, accounting for less than…