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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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- Ethylene oxide A chemical widely used in the health care industry to sterilize medical devices and also used to make other…
- Pick disease Pick disease: A form of dementia characterized by a slowly progressive deterioration of social skills and…
- Intractable Unstoppable. For example, intractable diarrhea or intractable pain.
- Pigmentation The coloring of the skin, hair, mucous membranes, and retina of the eye. Pigmentation is due to the…
- Aneurysm, venous An aneurysm involving a vein. As opposed to an arterial aneurysm or a cardiac aneurysm. An aneurysm is a…
- Disease, Hirschsprung A congenital abnormality (birth defect) of the bowel in which there is absence of the ganglia (nerves) in the…
- Vaccine, live polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Xerosis Abnormal dryness of the skin (xeroderma), of the conjunctiva of the eye (xerophthalmia), or of the mucous…
- Vaccination, rubella See Immunization, MMR.