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Vulvar pain, chronic
Also called essential vulvodynia (literally means 'painful vulva'), pain in the vulva, the female external genitalia including the labia, clitoris, and entrance to the vagina. The pain usually is a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation…
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- Vesiculitis Inflammation of a vesicle, and particularly of the seminal vesicles behind the male bladder
- Beef tapeworm Taenia saginata, the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw…
- Crohn colitis Crohn disease involving only the large intestine (colon). Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder…
- Ear tubes Ear tubes: Formally known as tympanostomy tubes, ear tubes are small plastic tubes inserted into the eardrum…
- Abstinence, periodic Also known as fertility awareness, natural family planning, and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- DASH diet An eating plan designed to lower the blood pressure. DASH is an acronym for Dietary Approaches to Stop…
- Recombinant tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator
- Shell shock The World War I name for what is known today as post-traumatic stress, this is a psychological disorder that…
- Dermatoscopy A noninvasive diagnostic technique for the early diagnosis of melanoma and the evaluation of other pigmented…
- Somnambulism A sleepwalker.
- Waardenburg syndrome A genetic disorder that causes deafness, white forelock (a frontal white blaze of hair), a difference of…