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Fluorosis
A much-used anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antimetabolites. Full name: 5-fluorouracil. Abbreviation: 5-FU. 5-FU is a pyrimidine antagonist. 5-FU is similar in structure to the pyrimidine base thymine and…
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- Deuteranomaly Colorblindness of the red-green type, also known as deuteranopia or Daltonism. The term 'Daltonism' is…
- Non-inferiority clinical trial A clinical trial that shows that a new treatment is equivalent to standard treatment. Also called a…
- Meningitis, Kernig sign of This clinical hallmark of meningitis, inflammation of the meninges, the membranes covering the brain and…
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- Phagedenic gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Palsy Paralysis, generally partial, whereby a local body area is incapable of voluntary movement (motor function)…
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a national resource…
- Ventricular arrhythmias Abnormal rapid heart rhythms (arrhythmias) that originate in the lower chambers of the heart (the…
- Rickets, hypophosphatemic A familial form of rickets characterized by hypophosphatemia (low blood phosphate level), defective…