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Cryptosporidium enteritis
See: Cryptosporidiosis
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- Bradykinesia Bradykinesia: Slowed ability to start and continue movements, and impaired ability to adjust the body's…
- Frontal In anatomy, pertaining to the forehead. As, for example, the frontal bone, frontal sinus, and frontal nerve…
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis A structure consisting of a collection of blood vessels and lymph vessels that are overgrown and clumped…
- Pott's disease An old term for tuberculosis of the spine that caused softening and collapse of the vertebrae, often…
- Oneiric Relating to dreams; dream-like. From the Greek 'oneiros' (dream). See oneirophrenia
- Accoucheur French for a male obstetrician, a physician skilled in the art and science of managing pregnancy, labor and…
- Cell, T See T cell
- Rectum The last 6 to 8 inches of the large intestine. The rectum stores solid waste until it leaves the body through…
- Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with…
- Mumps in pregnancy Mumps vaccination is not recommended during or shortly before pregnancy because it is a live attenuated…
- Syndrome, abdominal muscle deficiency See: Abdominal muscle deficiency syndrome