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Preeclampsia
A condition in pregnancy characterized by abrupt hypertension (a sharp rise in blood pressure), albuminuria (leakage of large amounts of the protein albumin into the urine) and edema (swelling) of the hands, feet, and face. Preeclampsia is…
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- Nares The nostrils or nasal passages. Nares is the Latin plural of naris, meaning nostril. Nares shares the same…
- Nasal prosthesis An artificial device to replace part or all of a missing nose
- Syndrome, Gelineau A neurological disorder marked by a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep. Named for a French…
- Excessive daytime sleepiness A neurological disorder in which there is a sudden recurrent uncontrollable compulsion to sleep. Excessive…
- Anxiety Anxiety: A feeling of apprehension and fear characterized by physical symptoms such as palpitations…
- Thyroid gland A gland that makes and stores hormones that help regulate the heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature…
- Cystic hernia See: Cystocele
- Palliate To treat partially and incompletely. To palliate a diseases is to treat it partially but not cure it…
- Inverted repeat A sequence of nucleotides in the DNA that is identical to another except that it has been reversed (inverted)…
- Leukemia, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Amelanotic Without melanin. A skin lesion that is amelanotic lacks the pigment melanin and therefore is essentially…