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Mental retardation, blindness, deafness, seizures
Seizures: A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X-linked mental retardation syndrome. In the family they studied there were 7 male children in 2 generations with the syndrome. The affected…
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Show more- Tension pneumothorax The pressure of the blood within an artery, the arterial pressure. Also called the intra-arterial pressure…
- Lingual gyrus An area in the occipital lobe, the visual processing center in the brain. The lingual gyrus extends to the…
- German measles immunization The standard MMR vaccine is given to prevent measles, mumps and rubella (German measles). The MMR vaccine is…
- Bellini duct carcinoma (BDC) A rare type of kidney cancer that begins in the duct of Bellini (a continuation of the collecting…
- System, central nervous (CNS) That part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system (CNS)…
- Connexin 26 Also known as gap junction beta 2, or GJB2. See: GJB2. See also: Connexin
- Pneumo- Prefix pertaining to breathing, respiration, the lungs, pneumonia, or air
- Rectal (noun) An informal term for a digital rectal exam (DRE) done to detect abnormalities that can be felt (palpated)…
- Monocyte chemotactic and activating factor See: MPC1
- Immunization, mumps Mumps: See Immunization, MMR
- Roentgen, Wilhelm Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923), German-born, Dutch-educated physicist who first observed and documented…
- Spondylolisthesis Forward movement of one of the building blocks (vertebrae) of the spine in relation to an adjacent vertebra…