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Screening, newborn hearing
Testing of the newborn baby's ability to hear. Newborn screening of hearing is done with automated auditory brainstem response tests or, less often, with what are called otoacoustic emission or conventional auditory brainstem response…
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Show more- Cascade A sequence of successive activation reactions involving enzymes (enzyme cascade) or hormones (hormone…
- Syndrome, cartilage hair hypoplasia See: Cartilage hair hypoplasia syndrome
- Achillobursitis Pain due to inflammation of the bursa associated with the Achilles tendon. . The Achilles tendon is one of…
- Vibrio cholerae One of the Vibrio bacteria, V. cholerae (as the name implies) is the agent of cholera, a devastating and…
- Progeny The children and other descendants. For example one might say that the progeny of someone with a genetic…
- Trench fever Fever: A disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I, when it is…
- Ornithine An amino acid that is not found in protein but is important in the formation of urea and the disposal of…
- Acute mountain sickness (AMS) Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the effect on the body of being in a high altitude environment. AMS is…
- Hypoplasia of the thymus and parathyroids See: DiGeorge syndrome
- Septum, interatrial The wall separating the upper chambers (the atria) of the heart. A hole in the interatrial septum is termed…
- Entamoeba histolytica The agent of amebic dysentery, a disorder with inflammation of the intestine and ulceration of the colon…
- Mind That which thinks, reasons, perceives, wills, and feels. The mind now appears in no way separate from the…