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Xanthoma, eruptive
See: Eruptive xanthoma
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- Psychosomatic Relating to both the mind and the body or to the mind-body interrelationships. From the Greek words…
- Reinstein syndrome A heritable syndrome characterized by eye disease (specifically, macular degeneration and inverse retinitis…
- Therapeutics In medicine, the branch that deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of…
- Omphalo- A birth defect in which part of the intestine, covered only by a thin transparent membrane, protrudes outside…
- Pneuma The life-giving principle. According to the school of medicine in ancient Alexandria, life was associated…
- Data Facts, statistics, and the like. In medicine and the health sciences, people often speak of 'the data'…
- Syndrome, Sjogren See: Sjogren syndrome
- Papular Adjective referring to one or more small solid rounded bumps rising from the skin that are each usually 0.5…
- Pneumocyte One of the cells lining the alveoli (the air sacs) in the lung. The alveoli are, in fact, lined with two…
- Spherocytosis, hereditary (HS) A genetic disorder of the red blood cell membrane clinically characterized by anemia, jaundice (yellowing)…
- Septic Infected, or denoting infection. For example, septic shock is shock caused by infection.