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Pathologist, speech-language
See: Speech-language pathologist
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- Deja vu (In French, dejà vu means 'already seen.' and the word dejà has an acute accent on the e and a grave accent…
- Morbilli Another name for measles, an acute highly contagious viral disease with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes…
- Diabetic nephropathy The kidney disease associated with long-standing diabetes. Diabetic nephropathy is also called…
- Jadassohn-Lewandowski Syndrome This syndrome is a form of what is called elephant nails from birth (pachyonychia congenita). The…
- Sesamoid bone A little bone embedded in a joint capsule or tendon. The kneecap (patella) is a sesamoid bone
- Tomograph The apparatus for generating a tomogram, a two-dimensional image of a slice or section through a…
- Therapy, antiretroviral (ART) Treatment that suppresses or stops a retrovirus. One of the retrovirus is the human immunodeficiency virus…
- Laparoscope An instrument through which structures within the abdomen and pelvis can be seen. A small surgical incision…
- Hyperglycemic response A response resulting in a high blood sugar and specifically elevating the level of the sugar glucose in the…
- Vaccinia, disseminated See Progressive vaccinia
- Double pneumonia Inflammation of both lungs. Medically called bilateral pneumonia