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Night blindness. Listed in medical dictionaries under 'Nyctalopia' from the Greek 'nyct' (night) + 'aloas' (obscure or blind) + 'opsis' (vision), the condition involves impaired vision in dim light and in the dark (but normal sight in…
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- Poliomyelitis An acute and sometimes devastating viral disease. Man is the only natural host for poliovirus. The virus…
- Bowel disease, inflammatory A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Primordia See: Primordium
- Bone, shin The larger of the two bones in the lower leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The shin bone is…
- Leukopenia Lower than the normal amount of white blood cells.
- Pain, belly Pain in the abdomen. See: Abdominal pain
- Acromion The projection of the scapula (the shoulder blade) that forms the point of the shoulder. The acromion is part…
- SPECT An acronym that stands for Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which…
- Rickets, renal Rickets-like bone malformations caused by prolonged inflammation of the kidneys
- Wart Wart: A local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a…
- Sapovirus A virus, formerly called 'Sapporo-like virus' (SLV) and sometimes referred to as classic or typical…