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Hypohidrosis
Subnormal sweating, less sweating than usual. Hidrosis meaning sweating, so hypohidrosis is literally undersweating
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Show more- History, family The family structure and relationships within the family, including information about diseases in family…
- Recur To occur again. To return. Any symptom (such as fatigue), any sign (such as a heart murmur), or any disease…
- Ecstatic Pertaining to ecstasy, a state of rapture and trancelike elation
- Library In genetics, a library is an unordered collection of clones (i.e., cloned DNA from a particular organism)…
- Heteroclite Deviating from the ordinary; irregular or abnormal; anomalous. As, for example, retroviruses represent a…
- Hormone, estrogenic A female hormone produced by the ovaries (or an equivalent hormone synthesized in the laboratory). Estrogen…
- Aldrin and dieldrin A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and…
- Helicobacter heilmannii A bacteria that infects most cats, dogs and pigs and, in them, causes stomach inflammation (gastritis). H…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 10 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…
- Three day fever See: Sandfly fever
- Rhinitis, allergic, perennial Allergic rhinitis (hayfever) that occurs throughout the year
- Epidermal Pertaining to the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin