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Pediatric pyelonephritis
Pediatric kidney infection. See: Urinary tract infection in children
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- Artery, vertebral A key artery located in the back of the neck that carries blood from the heart to the brain
- Rumination 1. Regurgitating food after a meal and then swallowing and digesting some of it. Cattle and other ruminant…
- Single upper palm line See: Simian crease
- Mediastinoscopy A procedure in which the doctor inserts a tube into the chest to view the organs in the mediastinum. The tube…
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein See: GFAP.
- Pachyonychia Elephant nail, a fingernail or toenail that is abnormally thick. From the Greek pachys, thick + onyx, nail =…
- Weaver's bottom Inflammation of the bursa that separates the gluteus maximus muscle of the buttocks from the underlying bony…
- Tubule A small tube.
- Hemorrhagic fever, epidemic A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and…
- Colpocephaly A brain disorder in which there is an abnormal enlargement of the occipital horns of the brain --the…
- Syndrome, Hantavirus pulmonary The syndrome of familial Hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural Deafness, and Renal dysplasia. Inherited as an…