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Nephritis
Inflammation of the kidney. Nephritis can be acute or chronic. Acute nephritis is most commonly caused by hypersensitivity (allergy) to drug therapy. Recognition of a drug-related cause is important because severe renal damage is often…
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Show more- Disease, mixed connective tissue A mixture of three diseases of connective tissue (the framework of the cells of the body) -- systemic lupus…
- BMT Bone marrow transplantation, a procedure in which doctors replace bone marrow that is diseased (or damaged)…
- Sexual sadism Individuals with sexual sadism disorder have persistent fantasies in which sexual excitement results from…
- Genotype The genetic constitution (the genome) of a cell, an individual or an organism. The genotype is distinct from…
- Hepatic artery See: Liver biopsy.
- Seizure, absence See: Absence seizure
- Inch In length, 1/12th of foot or 1/36 of a yard or, metrically, 2.54 centimeters. The inch, along with the foot…
- Anaesthesia See: Anesthesia
- Amnesia, antegrade See: Antegrade amnesia
- Proline An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A dietary nonessential amino acid, proline is a…
- Bi- Prefix meaning two, as in biceps or bicuspid
- ATM Symbol for the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene. The protein made by the ATM gene functions to…