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Dengue
Also known as Dengue fever, an acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache, fever, prostration, severe joint and muscle pain, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and rash. The presence…
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Show more- DHHS Acronym for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Also known as HHS. The U.S. Department of…
- Cancer, small cell lung A type of lung cancer in which the cells appear small and round under the microscope. Also called oat cell…
- Intermittent insomnia See Insomnia, intermittent
- CVS 1. Chorionic villus sampling, a procedure for first-trimester prenatal diagnosis. 2. Cyclic vomiting…
- Mycobacterium A large family of bacteria that have unusually waxy cell walls that are resistant to digestion. The…
- Coronary artery brachytherapy Local radiation treatment within an artery to the heart. Coronary artery brachytherapy has been used to…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 2 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal recessive manner due to mutation in the gene…
- Blood glucose The main sugar that the body makes from the food in the diet. Glucose is carried through the bloodstream to…
- Blade bone Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or wing bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Extubation The process of removing a tube from a hollow organ or passageway, often from the airway. The opposite of…
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Tachypnea (Pronounced tack-ip-nea.) Abnormally fast breathing. A respiratory rate that is too rapid. The normal rate of…