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Alport syndrome
An hereditary condition characterized by kidney disease, sensorineural (nerve) deafness and sometimes eye defects. The classic disorder as described by Alport in 1927 is nephritis (inflammation of the kidney), often progressing to renal…
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- Probiotic A microbe that protects its host and prevents disease. The best-known probiotic is Lactobacillus acidophilus…
- Diabetes, adult-onset Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2
- Pre-eclampsia A condition in pregnancy characterized by abrupt hypertension (a sharp rise in blood pressure), albuminuria…
- FTT Failure to thrive. Refers to a child whose physical growth is significantly less than that of peers. There is…
- Asparagine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Asparagine is nonessential to the diet since the…
- Erythrodermic psoriasis A particularly inflammatory form of psoriasis that often affects most of the body surface. It is the least…
- Doctor discontent See: Physician discontent
- Rice rat A rodent capable of carrying the types of hantavirus that cause HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) in the…
- Palate, hard The bony part of the roof of the mouth. The hard palate is just in front of the soft palate
- Parkinsonism 1. Parkinson disease. 2. A syndrome similar to Parkinson disease, for example, as a side effect of an…
- Heterochromatin, facultative Heterochromatin that need not always be heterochromatic but which has the faculty to return to the normal…