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Show more- Melanoma, iris See: Intraocular melanoma
- Histo Popular name for the fungus histoplasma. Also medical school slang for histology
- Syndrome, Aase-Smith I See: Aase-Smith syndrome I
- Intern In medicine, a doctor who has completed medical school and is engaged in a year of additional training at a…
- Magnetic-targeted carrier A prayer that is said to have been written by the 12th-century physician-philosopher Moses Maimonides. Like…
- Broken hip Fractured bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of…
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1 ALS1. A form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) inherited in an autosomal dominant manner and caused by…
- Causes of cancer Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases. Benign tumors are not cancer; malignant tumors are…
- Dyspareunia The medical term for pain during sexual intercourse.
- Genital Pertaining to the external and internal organs of reproduction. (Not to be confused with genetic.)
- Solipsism The doctrine that I alone exist. The self can know only its feelings and changes. There is only subjective…
- Tonsils Small masses of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat, on either side of the throat