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Mild cognitive impairment
Abbreviated MCI. A brain disorder in which thinking abilities are mildly impaired. Individuals with mild cognitive impairment are able to function in everyday activities but have difficulty with memory -- trouble remembering the names of…
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Show more- Red cells Short for red blood cells, the oxygen/carbon dioxide carrying cells in blood. Also known acronymically as…
- Polio immunization One of the two polio vaccines that are available: oral polio vaccine (OPV) and inactivated polio vaccine…
- Familial breast cancer A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of breast cancer. One of the strongest of…
- Bladder pain Pain from the urinary bladder. Among the symptoms and signs of bladder infection are: > >feelings of pain…
- Molluscicide Synonymous with molluscacide and at least equally hard to say. See: Molluscacide
- Comorbidity The coexistence of two or more disease processes.
- Virus, attenuated To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Chromosome, dicentric A chromosome in the stage of the cell cycle (the sequence of events in the life of a cell) when a chromosome…
- ABCD rating A staging system for prostate cancer. See the Jewett staging system
- Kneecap The medical name for the kneecap is the patella. Whichever name -- kneecap or patella -- you prefer, it is…
- Sikimitoxin Poisonous substance found in the Japanese star anise, which is also called sikimi
- Reinnervate To restore nerve function after it has been lost. See: Reinnervation