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Phen-Fen
The once-popular diet-drug combination of fenfluramine and phentermine that, amidst much media attention, was taken off the market because of concern for heart valve damage. See: Fenfluramine
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- Torre syndrome See: Muir-Torre syndrome
- Prostate, nodular hyperplasia See: Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Periodic fever Recurrences of fever that last from a few days to a few weeks and are separated by symptom-free intervals of…
- Goldring, Sidney Polish-born American neurosurgeon who pioneered the surgical treatment of epilepsy. Beginning in the 1970s…
- Sharp Medical slang for a needle or similar pointed object
- Trismus-pseudocamptodactyly syndrome See: Hecht syndrome
- Anfinsen See: Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr.
- Daw Abbreviation meaning 'dispense as written.' One of a number of hallowed abbreviations of terms that have…
- Small inhibitory RNA See: siRNA