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Fever, shin bone
Fever, shin bone: Called shin bone fever because it characteristically causes fever and pain in the legs, this disease is also known as trench fever. It is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War…
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- Enteral nutrition Pertaining to the small intestine. Also called (less often) enteral.
- James Watson See: Watson, James
- Erythroprosopalgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common…
- Lassitude Weakness, weariness, listlessness, exhaustion, lethargy. For example, the patient complained of lassitude…
- Hyperglycemic response A response resulting in a high blood sugar and specifically elevating the level of the sugar glucose in the…
- Pneumosilicosis See: Silicosis
- Retinopathy, arteriosclerotic See: Arteriosclerotic retinopathy
- Zooparasite A living parasite, such as a worm or protozoa
- Retinal electrophysiologic testing See: Electrophysiologic retinal testing
- Arterial blood gas (ABG) The sampling of the blood levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide within the arteries, as opposed to the levels…
- Weasand 1. The windpipe (trachea). 2. More loosely, the throat. 'Cut his weasand with thy knife.' The Tempest…