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Floppy valve syndrome
See: Mitral valve prolapse
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- Stenosis, spinal See: Spinal stenosis
- Hemophilia A group of inherited bleeding disorders in which the ability of blood to clot is impaired. See: Hemophilia A…
- Pool, gene The sum total of genes, with all their variations, possessed by a particular species at a particular time…
- Corn A small calloused area of skin caused by local pressure irritating tissue over a bony prominence. Corns most…
- Infection, middle ear Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Differentiation 1 The process by which cells become progressively more specialized; a normal process through which cells…
- Smell, inability to No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to…
- Folic acid One of the B vitamins that is a key factor in the synthesis (the making) of nucleic acid (DNA and RNA). A…
- Fat, unsaturated A fat that is liquid at room temperature and comes from a plant such as olive, peanut, corn, cottonseed…
- Paraquat lung Lung disease caused by the contact herbicide paraquat which selectively accumulates in the lungs and is…
- Triphalangeal Having three phalanges in a digit normally composed of only two