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Menetrier's disease
See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
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- Ambidextrous 1. Able to use both the right and left hands with equal dexterity. Neither right- nor left-handed.2. By…
- PARK11 Familial Parkinson disease type 11
- Syndrome, Aarskog-Scott See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Pylorus The outlet of the stomach.
- ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS has two meanings. One meaning of ALS refers to several adult diseases…
- Measly The word measly can refer to measles, and, thence, to spotty and, thence, to something that is of little…
- Polyp A mass of tissue that develops on the inside wall of a hollow organ, as within the colon or rectum. The word…
- Polychlorinated biphenyls See: PCBs
- Purpura, anaphylactoid See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Quincke's disease This is angioneurotic edema (or angioedema), a form of localized swelling of the deeper layers of the skin…