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Syndrome, Raeder's
A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common pattern of cluster headache is termed 'episodic' and is characterized by 1-3 short attacks of pain each day around the eyes, clustered…
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- Uterine fornix The fornix of the uterus (known in medical Latin as the 'fornix uteri') refers to the anterior (front) and…
- IFA Indirect immunofluorescence assay
- Adenoma colon family history See: Colon cancer family history
- Multidetector-row CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- DM2 Myotonic dystrophy type 2. See also: Myotonic dystrophy
- Epidermal growth factor EGF
- FMO3 Abbreviation for the enzyme, flavin-containing monooxygenase-3. See Fish-odor syndrome
- Medicare Part A The Medicare program that covers inpatient hospital stays. Medicare is the United States government's health…
- Randomize To use chance alone to assign or arrange. For example, the investigators may randomize the participants in a…
- CHEK2 A gene on chromosome 22q that encodes a kinase enzyme and influences a person's susceptibility to breast…