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Lilliputian hallucination
An hallucination in which things, people, or animals seem smaller than they would be in real life. Lilliputian refers to the 'little people' who lived (fictionally) on the island of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's 1726 masterpiece Gulliver's…
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- CT Abbreviation for: 1. Cognitive therapy; and, more often today 2. Computerized tomography, as in CT scan. CT…
- Test, carcinoembryonic antigen See: Carcinoembryonic antigen
- Radiation sickness See: Acute radiation syndrome
- Herbal remedy A medication prepared from plants, including most of the world's traditional remedies for disease. Most…
- Complete syndactyly A condition in which singers or toes are completely joined together, with the connection extending from the…
- Ultrasound/Ultrasonography A test in which high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) are bounced off tissues and the echoes are converted…
- AIDS dementia complex Dementia complex: A brain disorder that occurs in people with AIDS that causes the loss of cognitive…
- Arthritis, rheumatoid Autoimmune disease that is characterized by chronic inflammation of the joints and can cause inflammation of…
- Ear infection, middle (acute) Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Deerfly fever An infection in rabbits and other wild rodents caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that can be…
- Natural killer cell A cell that can react against and destroy another cell without prior sensitization to it. Natural killer (NK)…