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- Nephritis, infective tubulointerstitial Inflammation of the kidney due to infection. Symptoms include nausea, pain in the kidney area, fever, and…
- Catamenia Menstruation
- Familial ALS ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in which there a family history of the disease. Familial ALS constitutes…
- Syndrome, Cornelia de Lange See: de Lange syndrome
- Artery, hepatic An artery that distributes blood to the liver, pancreas and gallbladder as well as to the stomach and…
- EOS The gene for familial eosinophilia. EOS has been mapped to chromosome region 5q31-33 containing the cytokine…
- Fear of heat Thermophobia. An abnormally excessive and persistent fear of heat, including hot weather and hot objects…
- Hypercapnia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercapnia is as opposed to hypocapnia and…
- Genetic counseling An educational counseling process for individuals and families who have a genetic disease or who are at risk…
- Bone, sphenoid See; Sphenoid bone
- Polymyositis Polymyositis: A chronic inflammatory disease of muscle that begins when white blood cells, the immune cells…