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Hepatitis E virus
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- Smell See Olfaction
- Morton's nerve entrapment See: Morton's neuroma
- Deficiency, alpha-galactosidase A See: Fabry disease
- Periodic abstinence Also known as fertility awareness, natural family planning, and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- Pollices The thumbs. The plural of pollex. See: Pollex
- Loss-of-function mutation A mutation that results in reduced or abolished protein function. Gain-of-function mutations,which are much…
- Vein, great saphenous The larger of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- External fixation A procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by a splint or cast. External…
- Benign sleep myoclonus Sleep myoclonus: A distinctive disorder of sleep in infancy characterized by rhythmic myoclonic jerks (sudden…
- Splenic fever Known also as anthrax, splenic fever is a serious bacterial infection. It is not primarily a human disease…
- Anomaly A deviation from the usual, something different, peculiar, or abnormal. A congenital anomaly is something…