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Rapid plasma reagin test
A screening blood test for syphilis. Rapid plasma reagin is commonly abbreviated RPR. A negative ('nonreactive') RPR test result is compatible with a person not having syphilis. However, a person may have a negative RPR test and still have…
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Show more- Bone, frontal See: Frontal bone
- Yellow enzyme, Warburg's A key respiratory enzyme discovered by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in…
- Elliptocytosis Hematologic disorder characterized by elliptically shaped red blood cells (elliptocytosis) with variable…
- Myometrium The muscular outer layer of the uterus.
- Virus, Ebola A notoriously deadly virus that causes fearsome symptoms, the most prominent being high fever and massive…
- Behcet's disease See: Behcet's syndrome
- Syndrome, carpal tunnel See Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Syndrome, incontinentia pigmenti A genetic disease that begins soon after birth with the development of blisters on the trunk and limbs. These…
- Blood group An inherited feature on the surface of the red blood cells. A series of related blood types constitute a…
- Funnel chest (pectus excavatum) 'Caved-in' chest. Usually an unimportant isolated finding evident at birth. (Funnel chest can occasionally be…
- Zoonotic disease Any disease that is spread from animals to people. There are many known zoonotic diseases, some of them very…
- Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) An hereditary cancer syndrome which carries a very high risk of colon cancer and an above-normal risk…