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Cutaneous allodynia
Pain resulting from an innocuous stimulus to normal skin or scalp. The stimulus that triggers allodynia is not normally painful. The pain can be provoked by combing or brushing the hair, shaving, showering, wearing glasses or earrings. The…
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- MND Motor neuron disease
- Dinucleotide A sequence of 2 base pairs. A trinucleotide (a triplet of base pairs) may be split into a dinucleotide and a…
- Anterior cruciate ligament A ligament in the knee that crosses from the underside of the femur (the thigh bone) to the top of the tibia…
- Pain, shoulder See: Shoulder pain
- Sac, amniotic Amniotic sac
- Fungal Pertaining to a fungus. For example, a fungal skin infection
- Amino acids The building blocks of polypeptides and proteins
- Steroid A general class of chemical substances that are structurally related to one another and share the same…
- Voice box The voice box, or larynx, is the portion of the respiratory (breathing) tract containing the vocal cords…
- Nicotinic acid Deficiency of nicotinic acid (also known as niacin), one of the B-complex vitamins, causes pellagra. Pellagra…
- ERISA Employment Retirement Income Security Act. A US law enacted in 1974 which set up the ground rules for pension…