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Pathological hoarding
Excessive hoarding of material goods, a condition that affects up to 40% of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Excessive hoarders, who fill their houses with accumulations of junk, usually newspapers, bags of old clothing and…
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Show more- Chronic disease A disease that persists for a long time. A chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more, by the definition…
- Allele An alternative form of a gene. One of the different forms of a gene that can exist at a single locus (spot on…
- Biliary sludge A mixture of microscopic particulate matter in bile that occurs when particles of material precipitate from…
- Hypertension, white coat A transient increase in blood pressure (hypertension) triggered by the sight of medical personnel in white…
- Restenosis Renarrowing, as in restenosis of a coronary artery after angioplasty. From the Greek 'stenos' meaning narrow
- Pox virus See: Orthopox
- Dystrophy, lattice See: Lattice dystrophy
- G6PD deficiency G6PD deficiency: Deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), the most common enzyme…
- GD Gaucher's disease
- Thromboxane A2 The active type of thromboxane. Abbreviated TXA2
- Soft chancre See: Chancroid
- Sarcoma, soft tissue See: Soft tissue sarcoma