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Intermittent claudication
An aching, crampy, tired, and sometimes burning pain in the legs that comes and goes -- it typically occurs with walking and goes away with rest -- due to poor circulation of blood in the arteries of the legs. In very severe claudication…
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Show more- Megalencephaly Also called macrencephaly, a condition in which there is an abnormally large, heavy, and usually…
- Chalazion Chalazion: A cyst of the little glands in the eyelids that make a lubricant which they discharge through tiny…
- Torpor Sluggishness, dullness, languor, lassitude, stupor, torpidity. People can fall into a state of torpor, as can…
- Radioiodine An isotope of the chemical element iodine that is radioactive. Radioiodine is used in diagnostic tests as…
- Ammonium perchlorate See: Perchlorate
- Skin graft, full-thickness A graft technique in which sheets of skin containing both the epidermis and the dermis are used
- Buschke scleredema See: Scleredema
- Amyloidosis, primary Amyloidosis, primary: A disorder of plasma cells (special white blood cells that produce antibodies), this is…
- Silent stroke Stroke: Small strokes that do not cause any symptoms. Silent strokes still damage brain tissue. The most…
- Secondhand smoke Also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). See: ETS
- Alice in Wonderland syndrome A syndrome of distorted space, time and body image. The patient with the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has a…
- Herpes, labial A small sore situated on the face or in the mouth that causes pain, burning, or itching before bursting and…