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Kernig sign
A clinical hallmark of meningitis, inflammation of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. The test for Kernig sign is done by having the person lie supine (flat on the back), flex the thigh so that it is at a right…
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- Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with…
- Munchhausen by proxy See: Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage Hemorrhage: A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first noticed by somebody else or by the…
- Breast pain Pain in the breast or mammary gland, known medically as mastalgia. From the Greek masto-, breast + algos, pain
- Genome, Drosophila See: Drosophila genome
- Resorption The process of losing substance. Bone, when it is remodeled (reshaped), undergoes both new formation and…
- Zinc A mineral essential to the body, zinc is a constituent of many enzymes that permit chemical reactions to…
- Motoneuron The term motoneuron is an elision of motor and neuron. See: Motor neuron
- Wasting 1. Gradual loss (for example, of weight), deterioration, emaciation. As in a wasting disease. 2. Excessive…
- Cloning, therapeutic See: Therapeutic cloning
- Cachexia Physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass caused by disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS…