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Melioidosis
Melioidosis: An infectious illness, also called Whitmore's disease, that is most frequent in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and is caused by a bacteria called 'Pseudomonas pseudomallei' found in soil, rice paddies and stagnant…
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- Arthritis, Reiter The combination of inflammation of the joints (arthritis), eyes (conjunctivitis), and GU (genitourinary)…
- Repair, mismatch A system within the cell for correcting errors in DNA that works by detecting and replacing bases in the DNA…
- Sleep drug Any drug used to help sleep. Most prescription sleep drugs are sedative hypnotic agents. They include Valium…
- Cide A type of bacteria that is the most common agent of gas gangrene and can also cause food poisoning as well as…
- Zinc deficiency dermatitis and diarrhea Diarrhea: Among the consequences of zinc deficiency, dermatitis (skin inflammation) and diarrhea are…
- G (gram) Symbol for gram, a unit of measurement of weight and mass in the metric system. In weight, a gram is equal to…
- Thalassemia, alpha A blood disorder, thalassemia is not one disease but rather a group of disorders that have a single feature…
- Barium 1. A metallic element belonging to the alkaline earths with an atomic number of 56 and an atomic weight of…
- Valga See: Valgus
- Multifactorial Multiple factors. Multifactorial inheritance is the type of hereditary pattern seen when there is more than…
- Barium swallow An upper gastrointestinal series (barium swallow) is an X-ray test used to define the anatomy of the upper…