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Drug, anti-infective
Something capable of acting against infection, by inhibiting the spread of an infectious agent or by killing the infectious agent outright. Anti-infective is a general term that encompasses antibacterials, antibiotics, antifungals…
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- Type 2 diabetes See Diabetes, type 2.
- Moniliasis, oral Yeast infection of the mouth and throat caused by a fungus formerly called Monilia, now known as Candida…
- Lou Gehrig disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a classic motor neuron disease. Motor neuron diseases are progressive…
- Eardrum The tympanic membrane of the ear, or tympanum, the membrane that separates the middle ear from the external…
- Polyendocrinopathy syndrome, autoimmune A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Balance, acid-base Acid-base balance refers to the mechanisms the body uses to keep its fluids close to neutral pH (that is…
- Queasy A feeling of nausea
- Ophthalmoplegia with myopathy See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Testes The male sex glands. They are located behind the penis in a pouch of skin called the scrotum. The testes…
- Amebiasis Infection of the intestines with amebae, especially with the ameba Entamoeba histolytica, characterized by…
- Total laryngectomy A surgical procedure in which the whole voice box is removed, and the stoma opening into the larynx is…