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Subway diet:
The Subway diet is a weight loss plan popularized in 2004 by Jared Fogle, who claims that he lost over 245 pounds in one year by eating sandwiches from the Subway chain. Fogle replaced his 10,000 calorie per day food consumption with one…
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Show more- Tocus Labor, childbirth. Directly from the Greek 'tokos' meaning childbirth
- Stickler-Wagner syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Diabetes Diabetes: Refers to diabetes mellitus or, less often, to diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus and diabetes…
- Anorectic 1. Pertaining to anorexia, lack of appetite.2. A drug or other agent that causes anorexia and so diminishes…
- Behavioral medicine An interdisciplinary field of research and practice that focuses on how people's thoughts and behavior affect…
- Transposon A short mobile DNA sequence that can replicate and of which copies can be inserted at random sites within…
- Accelerated phase of leukemia Refers to chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) that is progressing. The number of immature, abnormal white…
- Test, eye chart This test measures how well you see at various distances. The eye chart itself -- the usual one is called…
- Foot drop See Foot-drop
- Spots, Koplik's Little spots inside the mouth that are highly characteristic of the early (prodromal) phase of measles…
- Rehydrate To restore lost water to the body tissues and fluids. Prompt rehydration is imperative whenever dehydration…
- Kveim test A skin test for detecting sarcoidosis, a disease of unknown origin that causes inflammation of body tissues…