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Infection, adenovirus
Infection with one of a group of viruses responsible for a spectrum of respiratory disease as well as infection of the stomach and intestine (gastroenteritis), eyes (conjunctivitis), and bladder (cystitis) and rash. Adenovirus respiratory…
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- Lindau-von Hippel syndrome See Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
- Dermoid Also called a dermoid cyst of the ovary, this is a bizarre tumor, usually benign, in the ovary that typically…
- Alternative Medicine, National Center for Compleme See: National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Cataplasm A poultice or plaster. A soft moist mass, often warm and medicated, that is spread over the skin to treat an…
- Gray syndrome See: Gray baby syndrome
- Hormone therapy Hormone therapy: A form of treatment that takes advantage of the fact that certain cancers depend on hormones…
- Meiotic drive Preferential selection during meiosis (germ cell production). In meiotic drive there is preferential…
- Rejection In transplantation biology, the refusal by the body to accept transplanted cells, tissues or organs. For…
- Laryngeal nerve palsy Paralysis of the larynx (voice box) caused by damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve or its parent nerve…
- Parvovirus B19 See: Fifth disease