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Eight-day measles
Measles: An acute highly contagious viral disease with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, and a spreading skin rash. The eight-day measles is the ordinary measles, also known as rubeola, a potentially disastrous disease. Measles may be…
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Show more- Cardiac myocyte A heart muscle cell. Sometimes called a myocyte when it is understood that it is in the heart. See also…
- Amelanotic melanoma See: Melanoma, amelanotic
- Pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer: Malignancy of the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer has been called a 'silent' disease because…
- Auditory acuity The clarity or clearness of hearing, a measure of how well a person hears. Auditory acuity is what is…
- Melioidosis Melioidosis: An infectious illness, also called Whitmore's disease, that is most frequent in Southeast Asia…
- Skin tag Skin tag: A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). Skin tags may appear on the skin almost…
- Parathyroid insufficiency See: Hypoparathyroidism
- Small inducible cytokine A2 See: MPC1
- Sinus, ethmoid See: Ethmoid sinus
- Reduction division The first cell division in meiosis, the process by which germ cells are formed. A unique event in which the…
- Dermis The lower or inner layer of the two main layers of cells that make up the skin.The dermis contains blood…
- Astatic seizure See: Atonic seizure