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Cod liver oil
An oil extracted from the liver of the cod. Cod liver oil was once given religiously to children every day as a rich source of vitamins A and D. It was also used to treat children with rickets, a bone disease due to vitamin D deficiency…
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Show more- Motor neurone disease Motor neuron disease. 'His suffering from motor neurone disease (MND) was finally over because he had chosen…
- Ear puncture Puncture of the ear drum may be due to an accident for example when something is stuck into the ear. Or it…
- Peri-appendiceal See: Periappendiceal
- Malignant 1. Tending to be severe and become progressively worse, as in malignant hypertension. 2. In regard to a…
- Robotripping Street name for the high produced by abuse of the cough syrup Robitussin which contains dextromethorphan
- Medication, vasodilator Drugs that act as blood vessel dilator (vasodilators) and open vessels by relaxing their muscular walls). For…
- Asplenia The absence of a spleen or one that functions. (The spleen can be functionally destroyed, as occurs in…
- Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome See: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Paraplegic Pertaining to paraplegia (paralysis of the lower part of the body including the legs)
- Physics, health The science of human health and radiation exposure. Health physics, also called medical physics, is devoted…
- Syndrome, Patau Trisomy 13 syndrome or three chromosome number 13s instead of the normal two. Children with this condition…
- Lymphoma, intermediate-grade See: Low-grade lymphoma.