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Syndrome, complete androgen insensitivity
A genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead, they are born looking externally like normal girls. Internally, there is a short blind-pouch vagina and no uterus, fallopian tubes…
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- Syndrome, goiter-deafness See Pendred syndrome
- Levothyroxine See: Thomas, Lewis.
- Adenitis Inflammation of a gland. From the aden-, gland + -itis, inflammation
- DiGeorge syndrome A genetic disorder characterized by hypocalcemia, immunodeficiency, and congenital heart disease: >…
- Cardiopathy Heart disease. A nonspecific term applicable to any and all diseases of the heart. From cardio- + the Greek…
- Coitus Sexual union of a male and a female; also called sexual intercourse. Coitus begins when the male inserts his…
- Lactose intolerance Lactose intolerance: Inability to digest lactose, a component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose…
- Medication, generic Drugs that act as blood vessel dilator (vasodilators) and open vessels by relaxing their muscular walls). For…
- Salk Institute The Salk Institute for Biological Studies , a prominent independent non-profit institution doing basic…
- Nutritional neuroscience The field of nutrition that relates to the central and peripheral nervous system. Nutritional neuroscience…
- Lepra 1. Leprosy (Hansen disease) 2. Before the mid 19th century, psoriasis.The acronym LEPRA stands for the…