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Fusospirillosis
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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- Acoustic aphasia See: Auditory aphasia
- Tuberculosis, dormant Tuberculosis, dormant: The presence of evidence for tuberculosis infection from a positive TB skin test in a…
- Diastrophic dysplasia An inherited skeletal disorder involving significantly short stature (dwarfism). Characteristic features at…
- Recent memory Short-term memory. Also called working memory. Recent memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing…
- Prayer of Maimonides A prayer that is said to have been written by the 12th-century physician-philosopher Moses Maimonides. Like…
- Pulse, water hammer A jerky pulse that is full and then collapses because of aortic insufficiency (when blood ejected into the…
- Hysterectomy, vaginal Removal of the uterus through a surgical incision, not of the abdomen but, within the vagina. With a vaginal…
- Mediastinum The area between the lungs. The organs in this area include the heart and its large veins and arteries, the…
- Whitmore's disease An infectious illness, also called melioidosis, that is most frequent in Southeast Asia and Northern…
- Doppler ultrasound A form of ultrasound that can detect and measure blood flow. Doppler ultrasound depends on the Doppler…
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome See: Stewart, Alice.