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Histamine cephalalgia
A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common pattern of cluster headache is termed 'episodic' and is characterized by 1-3 short attacks of pain each day around the eyes, clustered…
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- Belly button The navel or umbilicus. The one-time site of attachment of the umbilical cord. The term 'belly button' was…
- Microcystic corneal dystrophy A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows dots (or microcysts)…
- Serum amyloid A A superfamily of acute-phase proteins. The level of serum amyloid A (SAA) in the blood increases dramatically…
- Illness, chronic An illness that has persisted for a long period of time. It is a continuing disease process
- Membrane cofactor protein See: MCP
- Taenia solium The pork tapeworm. Contracted from eating undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of…
- Mitochondrial myopathy A group of neuromuscular diseases caused by damage to the mitochondria, energy-producing structures in cells…
- Angiitis, allergic granulomatous See: Churg-Strauss syndrome
- Pseudomonas infection Infection usually with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the versatile 'blue-green pus bacteria' that opportunistically…
- Transplant, lung The first lung transplant was done by the American surgeon James Hardy (1918-) in 1964.
- Insecticidal Capable of killing insects or controlling their growth