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Emotional child abuse
Child abuse: Emotional child abuse is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and physical child abuse), accounting 17% of all cases of child abuse. It is likely that emotional child abuse is greatly…
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- Frame, reading See: Reading frame
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- Scrofula An old term for tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck. Also known as the King's evil
- Bulimia nervosa See Bulimia
- Ependymoma A type of brain tumor derived from the cells that line the cavities within the ventricles of the brain and…
- Kostmann disease Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting…
- Heart failure Heart failure: Inability of the heart to keep up with the demands on it and, specifically, failure of the…
- Gorlin syndrome II Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and…
- Underload syndrome Literally being 'bored sick.' Lack of stimulation in life (such as with an extremely dull job) can result in…
- Colostomy, iliac A colostomy in which the exterior opening (stoma) is located on the lower left side of the abdomen
- Dyslexia Dyslexia: A specific reading disability due to a defect in the brain's processing of graphic symbols…