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Ricker syndrome
A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to mineralize bone. This softens bone (producing osteomalacia) and permits marked bending and distortion of bones. Up through the…
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Show more- MCH Abbreviation for mean cell hemoglobin concentration, which is the average concentration of hemoglobin in a…
- Ray, Roentgen See: Roentgen ray
- Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with…
- Test, CA 125 See: CA 125
- ANUG (acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis) This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Medication, anti-platelet Platelet-blocking drugs. Drugs that, like aspirin, reduce the tendency of platelets in the blood to clump and…
- Tube A long hollow cylinder. There are many tube-like structures in the human body, such as the auditory tube…
- Subutex Brand name for buprenorphine
- Lissencephaly syndrome See: Miller-Dieker syndrome
- Olefaction Common misspelling of olfaction
- Heat exhaustion Heat exhaustion: A warning that the body is getting too hot. The person may be thirsty, giddy, weak…
- Ectoparasitosis Infestation with an ectoparasite, a parasite that lives on or in the skin. The four major ectoparasitoses are…