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Hepatic encephalopathy
Brain dysfunction directly due to liver dysfunction, most often recognized in advanced liver disease. Hepatic encephalopathy may cause disturbances of consciousness and progress to coma. Hepatic encephalopathy is sometimes said to be…
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- Mucopolysaccharidosis One of a series of inherited metabolic disorders affecting a type of complex carbohydrate called a…
- Gram calorie See: Calorie
- Keratotic scabies See crusted scabies
- Syndrome, Danlos Better known today as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), is an inherited disorder with easy bruising, joint…
- Ceruloplasmin deficiency Lack of the protein ceruloplasmin from the blood and accumulation of iron in the pancreas, liver and brain…
- Myocyte, cardiac See: Cardiac myocyte
- Swallowing tube Descriptive term for the esophagus. See: Esophagus.
- Pathologist, speech-language See: Speech-language pathologist
- Popcorn worker lung See: Popcorn worker's lung
- Vasa previa A condition in which blood vessels within the placenta or the umbilical cord are trapped between the fetus…
- Vitamin B -- nicotinic acid Deficiency of nicotinic acid (also known as niacin), one of the B-complex vitamins, causes pellagra. Pellagra…