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Schonlein-Henoch purpura
A form of blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis) that typically affects small arterial vessels (capillaries) in the skin, kidneys, and intestinal tract. The disease presents characteristically as a skin rash associated with joint…
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Show more- Dizziness, pre-syncopal Dizziness before fainting. Some symptoms of dizziness such as wooziness, feeling about to black out, and…
- Medication, clot-dissolving See: Thrombolytic agent
- Congenital osseus-torticollis syndrome See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia A degenerative disorder of nerves with progressive spasticity of the legs. Abbreviated as AD-HSP. Spasticity…
- Calcaneal spur A bony spur projecting from the back or underside of the heel bone (the calcaneus) that often makes walking…
- Craniosynostosis Premature fusion of the cranial sutures (the fibrous joints between the bones of the skull) in an infant…
- Impact To lodge firmly or wedge in
- Euphoria Elevated mood. Euphoria is a desirable and natural occurrence when it results from happy or exciting events…
- Lamella A thin leaf, plate, disk, wafer
- Osteogenesis imperfecta tarda See: Osteogenesis imperfecta type I.
- Dynacin Brand name for minocycline
- Osteotomy, displacement Surgical reconfiguration of a bone by changing its physical relationship to other bones