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Cutaneous allodynia
Pain resulting from an innocuous stimulus to normal skin or scalp. The stimulus that triggers allodynia is not normally painful. The pain can be provoked by combing or brushing the hair, shaving, showering, wearing glasses or earrings. The…
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Show more- Pineal gland A small gland located deep within in the brain. It is believed to secrete melatonin, and may therefore be…
- Bronchitis, chronic Defined clinically as a daily cough with production of sputum for 3 months, two years in a row. In chronic…
- Disease, hydroxyapatite crystal The inflammation caused by hydroxyapatite crystals has been referred to as hydroxyapatite crystal disease…
- Adenitis Inflammation of a gland. From the aden-, gland + -itis, inflammation
- Vitamin B1 Thiamine. Vitamin B1 (thiamine) acts as a coenzyme in the metabolism of the body. Deficiency of thiamine…
- Womb cancer See: Uterine cancer
- Nerve, abducent A small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle called the lateral rectus muscle that moves the eye…
- Primum non nocere The Latin words for medical slogan 'First do no harm,' a fundamental medical precept of Hippocrates (ca…
- Parainfluenza A disease due to an acute respiratory infection caused by a parainfluenza virus. Parinfluenza occurs usually…
- Postural Pertaining to the posture or position of the body, the attitude or carriage of the body as a whole, or the…
- Cell cloning The process of producing a group of cells (clones), all genetically identical, from a single ancestral cell.
- Fourth ventricle >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…