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Senile
1. Pertaining to old age. 2. Pertaining to the physical decline associated with old age. 3. Pertaining to the mental decline once associated with old age but now known to be due to dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease or cerebral…
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- Sickness, altitude >If possible, don't fly or drive to high altitude. Start below 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and walk up. >If…
- Ubiquitous Present everywhere. The small protein called ubiquitin was so-named because it is present in all types of…
- Peromyscus maniculatus See: Deer mouse
- Hansen's bacillus See: Hansen bacillus
- Dysplasia, cleidocranial >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Hypnopompic hallucination A vivid dreamlike hallucination that occurs as one is waking up. The opposite of an hypnagogic hallucination…
- Thrombosis, cavernous sinus A cavernous sinus thrombosis is a blood clot within the cavernous sinus, a large channel of venous blood in a…
- Progressive dementia with cerebellar ataxia See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy A rare genetic disease that is passed on via an autosomal recessive gene. It is characterized by abnormal…
- SGOT Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, an enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. SGOT is…
- Hydrogen cyanide See: Cyanide