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Pseudoparalysis, spastic
Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. CJD is believed to be due to a highly unconventional transmissible agent named a prion. It is not a bacteria, not a virus, in fact not like any other known…
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Show more- Fistula, anal See: Anal fistula
- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty Angioplasty: PTCA. The use of a balloon-tipped catheter to enlarge a narrowed artery
- Disinsection Spraying aircraft for insects, a procedure called disinsection. Some countries in Africa, Latin America, the…
- Fibrosis, premacular See: Macular pucker
- Disease, Brill-Zinsser Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Cerebral herniation The abnormal protrusion of brain tissue through an opening when there is increased intracranial pressure…
- NIMH Stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S…
- Adenosine triphosphate An important carrier of energy in cells in the body and a compound that is important in the synthesis (the…
- Chlorinated camphene See: Toxaphene
- Methicillin A semisynthetic penicillin-related antibiotic, also known as Staphcillin, that once was effective against…
- Hypopigmented Underpigmented.
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe acute respiratory syndrome: A severe form of pneumonia. Abbreviated SARS. A term applied to outbreaks…