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The American Association of Medical Colleges, a nonprofit association of the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; more than 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems; some 90 academic and…
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Show more- Albinism and hemorrhagic diathesis Pigmented reticuloendothelial cells: See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Progressive cardiomyopathic lentiginosis See: LEOPARD syndrome
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID Morquio syndrome due to deficiency of the enzyme N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase. See also…
- Natriuretic Causing natriuresis, the excretion of an excessively large amount of sodium in the urine. A hybrid of the…
- Menetrier's disease See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- PH, blood See: Blood pH
- Bruce N. Ames See: Ames, Bruce N.
- Syndrome, post-polio (PPS) A constellation of symptoms and signs that appear from 20 to 40 years after the initial polio infection, and…
- Lower leg The lower leg is the bottom segment of the leg: the part below the knee. The lower leg contains two long…
- Vaccination, H. flu This immunization is designed to prevent disease due to Haemophilus influenzae (H. flu), specifically…
- Tone deafness The inability to recognize musical tones or reproduce them. Also called amusia
- ALS4 See: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4