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Fever, dengue
An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache, fever, prostration, severe joint and muscle pain, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and rash. The presence (the 'dengue triad') of…
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- Topoisomerase A class of enzymes that alter the supercoiling of double-stranded DNA. (In supercoiling the DNA molecule…
- Progesterone receptor test A laboratory test to determine if breast cancer cells have progesterone receptors on their surface. If the…
- Caudal An anatomic term meaning 1. Pertaining to the tail or the hind part. 2. Situated in or directed toward the…
- Grief therapy >Develop the ability to experience, express, and adjust to painful grief-related changes. >Find effective…
- Heart and hand syndrome See: Holt-Oram syndrome
- Fear of feces El waste): An abnormal and persistent fear of feces (bowel waste). Sufferers of this fear experience anxiety…
- Rickets, hypophosphatemic A familial form of rickets characterized by hypophosphatemia (low blood phosphate level), defective…
- Weissenbacher-Zweymuller syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Race An ethnic stock or division of humans. Naturalists and ethnographers have long divided humans into a variable…
- Arms An appendage in anatomy and in clinical trials. See: Arm
- Crack (drug) The street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free…