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Trachoma
A chronic inflammatory eye disease due to infection with a bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis. Trachoma results in blindness so frequently that it places a huge burden a year on world health funding. The disease goes by a number of…
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Show more- Tolerance A state in which a T cell can no longer respond to antigen. The T cell 'tolerates' the antigen. Also called…
- UA Abbreviation for urinalysis, a test that determines the content of the urine. Because urine removes toxins…
- Aniso- Unequal, unlike, or dissimilar. As in anisocoria, anisocytosis, and anisometropia. From the Greek anisos…
- Klinefelter syndrome Klinefelter syndrome: A chromosome condition in boys and men that is usually due to 47 chromosomes with XXY…
- Parainfectious Occurring at the time of and in association with an acute infection or an episode of infection. For example…
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy See: Cognitive therapy
- FFN Fetal fibronectin
- Tinea unguium >People with diabetes; >People with disease of the small blood vessels (peripheral vascular disease); and…
- Nomenclature of diseases See: Disease nomenclature
- ROMA Representational oligonucleotide microarray analysis. A method for the detection of genomic aberrations…
- Iron deficiency anemia Anemia: The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia…
- Ile Isoleucine. See also: Amino acid symbols