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West syndrome
Infantile spasms, a seizure disorder of infancy and early childhood with the onset predominantly in the first year of life of myoclonic seizures, hypsarrhythmia (abnormal, chaotic electroencephalogram), and mental retardation. The spasms…
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Show more- Bile duct cancer An uncommon type of cancer that arises from the bile duct, the tube that connects the liver and the…
- Lobar Having to do with a lobe. For example, lobar pneumonia.
- Skin graft, porcine A skin graft in which pig skin is used. Like grafts from human donors, porcine grafts are usually just a…
- Aneurysm, venous An aneurysm involving a vein. As opposed to an arterial aneurysm or a cardiac aneurysm. An aneurysm is a…
- Toe, turf See: Turf toe
- Valga See: Valgus
- Right heart The heart is composed functionally of two hearts - the right heart and the left heart. The right heart…
- Local treatment Treatment that affects the tumor and the area close to it.
- Smell disorder See: Olfactory disorder
- Cervical Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the…
- Mite-borne typhus Scrub: typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Polio immunization One of the two polio vaccines that are available: oral polio vaccine (OPV) and inactivated polio vaccine…