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Aerospace medicine
The fields of medicine concerned with the maintenance of health, safety, and performance of those in aviation and space travel. Aerospace medicine is the sum of aviation medicine and space medicine -- health in flight both inside and…
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Show more- Lateral epicondylitis See: Tennis elbow
- Craniocleidodysostosis >Typical cranial and facial abnormalities with square skull, late closure of the sutures of the skull, late…
- Genitalia, female external See: Female external genitalia
- Tzanck smear See Tzanck test
- Vision, blurred See: Blurred vision
- Periosteoma A benign tumor arising from the periosteum, the dense membrane composed of fibrous connective tissue that…
- Cervical vertebrae The cervical (neck) vertebrae are the upper 7 vertebrae in the spinal column (the vertebral column). They are…
- Fever, epidemic hemorrhagic A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and…
- Food irradiation A food safety technology designed to eliminate disease-causing germs from foods. Treating food with ionizing…
- Fever, Pontiac See: Pontiac fever
- Arthropathy Joint disease. The term arthropathy does not specify the type of joint disease. It might be osteoarthropathy…
- RFLP An antigen found in the red blood cells of most people: those who have Rh factor are said to be Rh positive…