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Acute kidney failure
See: Acute renal failure
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- Fear of pleasure An abnormal, excessive, and persistent fear of pleasure. Sufferers with this most puritanical of phobias…
- Resection Surgical removal of part of an organ
- Syndrome, Martorell See: Takayasu disease
- Skeletal Pertaining to the skeleton, the bones of the body which collectively provide the framework for the body
- Mammaplasty, reduction See: Breast reduction
- DNA sequence The precise ordering of the bases (A,T,G,C) from which the DNA is composed. DNA sequencing involves…
- Cretinism Congenital hypothyroidism (underactivity of the thyroid gland at birth) resulting in growth retardation…
- Neuralgia, postherpetic Localized pain in the area of involvement of shingles that persists beyond one month. The most common…
- Athymic Lacking a thymus gland
- Mountain sickness >If possible, don't fly or drive to high altitude. Start below 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and walk up. >If…
- Seizure, tonic-clonic See: Tonic-clonic seizure