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Wagner's syndrome
See: Stickler syndrome
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- Deficiency, GALT Lack of the enzyme called GALT (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase) which causes the genetic metabolic…
- Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an…
- Autonomic neuropathy Disease of the nerves affecting mostly the internal organs such as the bladder muscles, the cardiovascular…
- Piercing Using a sharp instrument, usually a needle, to make a temporary or permanent hole through an earlobe or other…
- Therapeutic Relating to therapeutics, that part of medicine concerned specifically with the treatment of disease. The…
- Artificial insemination A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Atrophy, peroneal muscular Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Beijerinck, Martinus W. (1851-1931) Dutch microbiologist who was the first person to use the term 'virus' for the invisible…
- Film, AP An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from front-to-back (anteroposterior). As opposed to a PA…