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Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
A severe form of epilepsy that is characterized by the onset in early childhood of frequent seizures of multiple types, developmental delay, a particular brain wave pattern (a slow spike-and-wave pattern), and behavioral disturbances with…
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Show more- Nurse, registered A nurse who has completed a two- to four-year degree program in nursing, and provides direct patient care for…
- Genetic discrimination The potential use of genetic information to discriminate against people in the workplace, in health…
- Diabetic spinal cord disease Involvement of the spinal cord in diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus has focused…
- PPMA (post-polio muscular atrophy) Late muscle wasting that occurs as part of the post-polio syndrome (PPS), a constellation of symptoms and…
- Sleeping sickness, African See: African sleeping sickness
- Flatulence Excess gas in the intestinal tract. But excess flatulence is difficult to define without a yardstick to…
- Tumor, desmoid See: Desmoid tumor
- Pharmacopoeia An official authoritative listing of drugs. Aspirin has, for example, long been in the pharmacopoeia. By…
- Thermally induced asthma Asthma: Asthma that is 'triggered' by vigorous physical activity. Exercise-induced asthma tends particularly…
- Erb paralysis See: Erb palsy
- Anemia and triphalangeal thumbs See: Aase-Smith syndrome II
- Comminuted fracture A fracture in which bone is broken, splintered or crushed into a number of pieces. NTER> Note that…