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Tennis elbow
A painful injury to the tendon that is attached to the outer part of the elbow due to repetitive twisting of the wrist or forearm which causes irritation and inflammation of the extensor tendon. This tendon attaches to the lateral…
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Show more- Elephantiasis Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease caused by tiny thread-like worms that live in the…
- EBV Epstein-Barr virus, best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis ('mono'). Infection with EBV is…
- Factor VIII Factor eight, a key factor in the process of blood coagulation (clotting). Lack of normal factor VIII causes…
- Arteria femoralis See: Femoral artery
- Neurosyphilis Neurological complications in the third (tertiary) and final phase of syphilis, which involve the central…
- Pianist's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs when playing the…
- Gonad, male The male gonad, the testicle (or testis), located behind the penis in a pouch of skin (the scrotum). The…
- Triptans (Triptan) Fear of the number 13. Written reference to this fear dates to the late 1800s. The term triskaidekaphobia…
- Injury, mower See: Mower injury
- Pyelo Short for pyelonephritis, which is bacterial infection of the kidney. Pyelonephritis can be acute (sudden) or…
- Yellow enzyme, Warburg's A key respiratory enzyme discovered by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in…
- EYCL2 A gene for brown eye color. See also: Eye color