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Body dysmorphic disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder: A psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation with imagined defects in physical appearance. People with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) are obsessed by the idea that some part of their body --…
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Show more- Hippocampus An area buried deep in the forebrain that helps regulate emotion and memory. Functionally, the hippocampus is…
- Risk factor Something that increases a person's chances of developing a disease
- Iatric Relating to medicine or a physician. Iatric systems are medical systems. From the Greek iatrikos (medical)…
- Substance 1. Material with particular features, as a pressor substance.2. The material that makes up an organ or…
- Dioxin One of a number of poisonous petroleum-derived chemicals which are produced when herbicides (substances used…
- Syncephaly Conjoined twins whose heads are joined together. From syn-, together + -cephaly, head = heads together. Also…
- Seborrheic dermatitis A medical name for what is popularly called seborrhea
- Corticosteroid allergy A delayed allergic reaction to corticosteroid (drugs similar to cortisone). This occurs in 1-4% of people who…
- Diuresis The increased formation of urine by the kidney. See diuretic for more detail
- Still's Disease See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid.
- Leptospirosis Leptospirosis: An infectious disease caused by a particular type of bacteria called a spirochete transmitted…
- Collateral knee ligament, lateral The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…