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Brachial palsy
See: Brachial plexus palsy
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- Dominant, autosomal See: Fredrickson, Donald.
- Diaphragmatic pacing See: Diaphragm pacing
- Miliary tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, miliary
- Genes, breast cancer susceptibility Breast cancer susceptibility: Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes…
- Cerebral amyloidosis and spongiform encephalopathy See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Intersex A group of conditions sometimes referred to as disorders of sexual development (DSDs) in which there is a…
- Metastasis 1. The process by which cancer spreads from the place at which it first arose as a primary tumor to distant…
- Sand, biliary Biliary sand is a term mostly used by surgeons when they remove the gallbladder to describe uncountable…
- Valsalva 1. The Valsalva maneuver in which a person tries to exhale forcibly with a closed glottis (windpipe) so that…
- Syndrome, Waardenburg See Waardenburg syndrome
- Fear of sharks Excessive and persistent fear of sharks is termed galeophobia. Sufferers from this phobia experience anxiety…