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Illness, heat-related
A person with symptoms including headache, nausea, and fatigue after exposure to heat probably has some measure of a heat-related illness. It is important to recognize the difference between the very serious condition known as heat stroke…
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- Syndrome, Kimmelstiel-Wilson Diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease). Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome is a kidney condition associated with…
- Syndrome, cyclic vomiting Better known today as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), is an inherited disorder with easy bruising, joint…
- Gonad, indifferent In embryonic life, the gonad in males and females is initially identical. This gonad is said to be…
- Gastroesophageal junction The junction between the stomach and the esophagus; the place where the esophagus connects to the stomach
- Trichomonas vaginalis A protozoan parasite that causes vaginitis. See: Trichomonas
- Heterotaxy The abnormal placement of organs due to failure to establish the normal left-right patterning during…
- Short hairpin RNA See: shRNA
- Vertebrae, thoracic The 12 thoracic vertebrae are situated between the cervical (neck) vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. The…
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders Stroke (NINDS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NINDS's mission is to 'support and…
- Pump-oxygenator A machine that does the work both of the heart (pump blood) and the lungs (oxygenate the blood). Used, for…
- Anatripsis The use of friction as a treatment modality for a medical condition. Anatripsis may or may not also involve…