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Factor, colony-stimulating
Rheumatoid factor is an antibody that is measurable in the blood. It is commonly used as a blood test for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid factor is present in about 80% of adults (but a much lower proportion of children)…
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Show more- Attenuated virus To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Apopain See: Caspase 3
- Nodular Bumpy.
- Osteogenesis imperfecta Brittle bone disease. Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is not one but a group of genetic diseases, all of which…
- Hypoglycemia unawareness Hypoglycemia unawareness: A complication of diabetes in which the patient is unaware of a deep drop in blood…
- Scarlatina Also called scarlet fever, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria that occurs in a…
- Cerebral vascular disease See: Cerebrovascular disease
- Discordant 1. Showing discordance, lack of agreement. A couple may be discordant for a sexually transmitted infection…
- Scleredema adultorum A misleading term since scleredema can also occur in children. See: Scleredema
- Reaction, vasovagal See: Vasovagal reaction
- Melanoma Melanoma: The most dangerous form of skin cancer, a malignancy of the melanocyte, the cell that produces…
- Syndrome, hypoplastic left heart A form of congenital heart disease in which the whole left half of the heart (including the aorta , aortic…