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Holoprosencephaly
A relatively common birth defect of the brain, which often also affects facial features, causing closely spaced eyes, small head size, and sometimes clefts of the lip and roof of the mouth. Not all individuals with holoprosencephaly (HPE)…
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- HIPAA Acronym that stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a US law designed to provide…
- Extradural hematoma See: Epidural hematoma
- Pantothenic acid Pantothenic acid is vitamin B5, one of the less well known B vitamins, perhaps because it is widely…
- Gland, sudoriferous The sudoriferous (sweat) glands are small tubular structures situated within and under the skin (in the…
- Complicated grief Grief that is complicated by adjustment disorders (especially depressed and anxious mood or disturbed…
- Dipper A person in whom there is the normal nocturnal fall (dip) in blood pressure. The opposite of a dipper is a…
- Artery disease, coronary See: Coronary artery disease
- Anhidrosis Not sweating. From the Greek an- meaning a lack of + hidros meaning sweat = lack of sweat. The inability to…
- Event A set of outcomes. Cardiovascular events might include a heart attack and gastrointestinal events a GI bleed…