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Acute stress disorder
The anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within a month of exposure to extreme trauma. The symptoms of an acute stress disorder usually begin during or shortly following the trauma. Such extreme traumatic events include rape or…
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Show more- Syndrome, MASA MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs. Features of the syndrome…
- Neoplasm A tumor. An abnormal growth of tissue. The word neoplasm is not synonymous with cancer. A neoplasm may be…
- Maneuver, Heimlich An emergency treatment for obstruction of the airway in adults. It may be needed when someone chokes on a…
- Iatrogenic Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Osteogenesis imperfecta tarda See: Osteogenesis imperfecta type I.
- Osteogenesis imperfecta with blue sclerae See: Osteogenesis imperfecta type I.
- Qualitative Having to do with quality. In contrast to quantitative (which pertains to quantity, the amount)
- Disease, inflammatory bowel A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy See: Stickler syndrome
- Headache, rebound Headaches experienced by those who have taken ergotamine or analgesic medications for migraines or other…
- Syndrome, Proteus A disturbance of cell growth including benign tumors under the skin, overgrowth of the body, often more on…
- Phenomenon, Babinski A neurologic reflex that constitutes an important medical examination based upon what the big toe does when…