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Deafness with goiter
Deafness with goiter: See Pendred syndrome
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- Enkephalinase See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase
- IDET Intradiskal electrothermal therapy, a procedure designed to relieve back pain due to damage to the disks…
- Myokymia Continuous involuntary muscle twitchings that give the appearance of wormlike rippling of muscle. The muscle…
- NCCS National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
- Dx Abbreviation standing for diagnosis, the determination of the nature of a disease. Dx may alternatively be…
- Fever, Southeast Asian hemorrhagic A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage…
- Base sequence The order of the nucleotide bases -- adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C) -- in a DNA…
- Kubler-Ross See: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Occiput The back of the head. A direct borrowing of the Latin word for the part of the head opposite the front
- Leiomyosarcoma A malignant tumor of smooth muscle origin. Smooth muscle is the major structural component of most hollow…
- KHM Keratoderma hereditarium mutilans. See: Vohwinkel syndrome