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Named reporting
In public health, named reporting is the reporting of infected persons by name to public health departments. This is standard practice for the surveillance of many infectious diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, and tuberculosis that pose…
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Show more- Leukocoria A white pupillary reflex. When one shines a bright light on the pupil, it normally appears red. In…
- Addiction, computer See: Computer addiction
- Syndrome, abdominal muscle deficiency See: Abdominal muscle deficiency syndrome
- Oesophagus Alternate spelling for esophagus. The British have an oesophagus while Americans have an esophagus. But on…
- Hypoglossal nerve The hypoglossal nerve is the twelfth cranial nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the hypoglossal nerve…
- Milk, witch's See Witch's milk.
- Aspiration pneumonia Pneumonia: Infection of the lungs due to aspiration (the sucking in of food particles or fluids into the…
- Congenital osseus-torticollis syndrome See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Mountain sickness, acute (AMS) Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the illness that results from being in a high altitude environment. AMS is…
- Wolhynia fever Fever: Also known as trench fever, a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of…
- Hybridoma A cell hybrid resulting from the fusion of a cancer cell and a normal lymphocyte (a type of white blood…
- Afferent nerve A nerve that carries impulses toward the central nervous system (CNS). The opposite of an afferent nerve is…