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Athlete foot
See: Athlete's foot
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Show more- PMLD Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
- Hemorrhage Bleeding or the abnormal flow of blood. The patient may have an internal hemorrhage that is invisible or an…
- Buschke scleredema See: Scleredema
- AK 1. Above the knee. 2. Acanthamoeba keratitis. 3. Actinic keratosis
- Irwin DJ Bross See: Bross, Irwin DJ
- Stenosis, pulmonary The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
- Reflex, patellar See: Knee jerk
- Plasticity, brain See Neuroplasticity
- Prion disease A disease due to a prion, a proteinaceous infectious particle that lacks nucleic acids. Prions are composed…
- Malignant giant cell tumor A type of bone tumor characterized by massive destruction of bone near the end (epiphysis) of a long bone…
- Electromagnetic field therapy See: Magnet therapy
- Infection The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another…