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Syndrome, Behcet's
See: Behcet's syndrome
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- Entomology, medical See: Medical entomology
- Acrophobia An abnormally excessive and persistent fear of heights. Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they…
- Cycle, menstrual See: Menstrual cycle
- Sleep drug Any drug used to help sleep. Most prescription sleep drugs are sedative hypnotic agents. They include Valium…
- Tomograph The apparatus for generating a tomogram, a two-dimensional image of a slice or section through a…
- MCL (medial collateral ligament) of the knee The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Zinc finger protein 9 See: ZNF9
- Antibody, antinuclear An unusual antibody that is directed against structures within the nucleus of the cell. Antinuclear…
- Physics, health The science of human health and radiation exposure. Health physics, also called medical physics, is devoted…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 10 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…