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Advanced paternal age
A man who is age 40 years or older at the time of conception. (There is no universally accepted definition of advanced paternal age but this criterion is often used in genetic counseling.) Advanced paternal age is associated with an…
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Show more- Breslow thickness A method for determining the prognosis with melanoma. The thickness of a melanoma is related to the 5-year…
- Multifactorial Multiple factors. Multifactorial inheritance is the type of hereditary pattern seen when there is more than…
- Tinea barbae A superficial fungal infection of the skin, affecting the bearded area of the face and neck, with swellings…
- Conventional medicine Medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees and by their…
- Intraventricular In the ventricle of the heart or brain.
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome An overgrowth syndrome, whose clinical manifestations typically include macrosomia (large body size)…
- Palliative care 1) Medical or comfort care that reduces the severity of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing…
- Hip replacement, total Hip replacement, total: Surgery in which the diseased ball and socket of the hip joint are completely removed…
- ENT 1. Abbreviation for ears, nose and throat. A field of medicine also called otolaryngology. 2. Abbreviation…
- Osteo- (prefix) Combining form meaning bone. From the Greek 'osteon', bone. Appears for instance in osteoarthritis…
- Outlet The exit or opening. The means by which something escapes.
- Familial Parkinson disease type 3 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…