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Cold injury
Cold injuries include chilblains, 'trench foot,' and frostbite. Cold injuries occur with and without freezing of body tissues. The young and the elderly are especially prone to cold injury. Alcohol increases the risk of cold injury which…
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- Stress exercise thallium scan Stress exercise thallium scan: A method of examining the heart to obtain information about the blood supply…
- Gram stain The Danish bacteriologist J.M.C. Gram (1853-1938) devised a method of staining bacteria using a dye called…
- Histiocytosis, Langerhans cell Histiocytosis in which the active histiocytes normally occur in the skin. See histiocytosis.
- Enuresis Involuntary urination, which may be caused by a variety of factors. These include disorders of the kidneys…
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- Favism A condition characterized by hemolytic anemia (breakup of red blood cells) after eating fava beans (Vicia…
- Cross-sectional study A study done at one time, not over the course of time. A cross-sectional study might be of a disease such as…
- Frenum A restraining structure. Frenum is Latin for a bridle. A small frenum is a frenulum
- Ciliary body Part of the eye, the ciliary body is a thin vascular (blood vessel-filled) middle layer of the eye that is…
- Septicemia Systemic (bodywide) illness with toxicity due to invasion of the bloodstream by virulent bacteria coming from…
- Sac, pericardial See: Pericardial sac