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Carbo-loading
An eating routine used by some athletes that involves downing large amounts of carbohydrates several days before a potentially exhausting endurance event. Carbo-loading has no known potential benefits for anyone except athletes under these…
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Show more- Nerve, first cranial The first cranial nerve is the olfactory nerve, the nerve that carries impulses for the sense of smell from…
- Choroiditis An inflammation of the layer of the eye behind the retina, either in its entirely (multifocal choroiditis) or…
- Fallopian tube One of the two Fallopian tubes that transport the egg from the ovary to the uterus (the womb). In the…
- Kussmaul breathing Air hunger.
- End-stage renal disease ESRD. Chronic irreversible renal failure
- Induced disease by proxy See: Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Neanderthal An extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens who lived in Europe and the area around the Mediterranean from 100,000…
- Facelift Although infrequent, the risks and complications of facelift surgery include: bleeding, hematoma, bruising…
- Compression, nerve See: Nerve compression
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) Also known as serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), AST is an enzyme that is normally present in…
- Psychological child abuse Child abuse: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child…
- Leukomalacia, cystic periventricular Softening of the white matter near the ventricles of the brain resulting in abnormal cysts. Cystic…