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Claudication, intermittent
Claudication, intermittent: An aching, crampy, tired, and sometimes burning pain in the legs that comes and goes -- it typically occurs with walking and goes away with rest -- due to poor circulation of blood in the arteries of the legs…
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- Syndrome, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Vaccinia gangrenosa See Progressive vaccinia
- Pathogen inactivation A process designed to eliminate most pathogens -- viruses, bacteria and fungi -- from water, air or donated…
- Somnolent Sleepy or tending to cause sleep. 'Somnolent' came from French. It descends from the Latin 'somnus' meaning…
- Electroretinography Electroretinography: Abbreviated ERG. A test in which the electrical potentials generated by the retina of…
- Ear tag Common minor anomaly, a rudimentary tag of ear tissue, often containing a core cartilage, usually located…
- Diesel exhaust particle A respirable particle produced during the compression ignition of diesel fuel. Diesel particles are composed…
- BRCA2 A gene that normally acts to restrain the growth of cells in the breast and ovary but which, when mutated…
- Tzanck test The examination of fluid from a bulla (a blister) in search of Tzanck cells characteristic of varicella…
- Nuclear family The family group consisting of the father, mother, and their children, as distinct from the extended family
- Tandem repeat sequences Multiple copies of the same DNA base sequence on a chromosome; used as a marker in physical mapping of the…