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Vincent stomatitis
This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and…
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Show more- Fusospirillosis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Stomach cancer Stomach cancer: Cancer of the stomach, the main organ that holds food for digestion. Worldwide, stomach…
- Danders See: Dander
- Incubation period In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Putamen An area in the brain within a structure called the lentiform nucleus. The putamen may decrease in size as a…
- Paramyxovirus One of a group of RNA viruses that are responsible predominantly for acute respiratory diseases and are…
- GFAP Glial fibrillary acidic protein. The degenerative brain condition called Alexander disease is caused by…
- Metabolic syndrome Metabolic syndrome: A constellation of conditions that place people at high risk for coronary artery disease…
- Immunology The study of all aspects of the immune system including its structure and function, disorders of the immune…
- Palsy, laryngeal Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve (a long and important nerve that…
- Science (journal) A weekly journal concerning science. Science was founded in 1880 by one of the world's most famous…
- Kinome A subset of the genome consisting of the protein kinase genes. The complete complement of over 500 protein…