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Fear of crossing bridges
An abnormal and persistent fear of crossing bridges. Sufferers of this phobia experience undue anxiety even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their fear may result partly from the fear of enclosure (claustrophobia) or the fear…
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Show more- Vasomotor Relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate
- Category 1 storm See: Category two hurricane.
- Mammogram Mammogram: An X-ray of the breast with the breast in a device that compresses and flattens it. There are two…
- Reflex, Babinski An important neurologic test based, believe it or not, upon what the big toe does when the sole of the foot…
- Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy. (From the New Latin, philosophiae doctor). Ph.D.'s are involved in clinical care (as in…
- Genetic counseling An educational counseling process for individuals and families who have a genetic disease or who are at risk…
- Frame, open reading See: Open reading frame
- Naming diseases See: Disease nomenclature
- Growth hormone A hormone made in the pituitary gland that stimulates the release of another hormone called somatomedin by…
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) Spontaneous tearing in parallel with the normal salivation of eating. The crocodile tears syndrome occurs…
- Microbe A very tiny form of life -- microbes include bacteria, fungi, and protozoan parasites -- best visualized…
- Dystrophia brevicollis congenita See: Klippel-Feil sequence