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Wart, genital
A wart that is confined primarily to the moist skin of the genitals. These warts are due to viruses belonging to the family of human papilloma viruses (HPVs) which are transmitted through sexual contact. The virus can also be transmitted…
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- Mortality rate, fetal The ratio of fetal deaths to the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year. In the…
- Test, radionucleide stress Stress: This procedure involves injecting a radioactive isotope (typically thallium or cardiolyte) into the…
- Oil, tropical Coconut, palm kernel or palm oil. Like all fats and oils, these three oils contain various types of fatty…
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy Fatty liver of pregnancy: Liver failure in late pregnancy, usually from unknown cause. Acute fatty liver of…
- Depression, major Depression, major: A disease that interferes with the ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable…
- Scaling Abnormal shedding or accumulation of an upper layer of skin (the stratum corneum)
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- Therapeutics In medicine, the branch that deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of…
- Osteitis fibrosa cystica A condition associated with hyperparathyroidism in which bone tissue is gradually replaced by cysts and fibers