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Retinoic acid syndrome
A syndrome that occurs from treatment with retinoic acid and is characterized by fever, dyspnea (difficulty breathing), chest pain, lung infiltrates evident on chest X-ray, pleural and pericardial effusions (fluid around the lungs and…
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- Dura The outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal…
- Food poisoning Food poisoning: A common flu-like illness typically characterized by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, due to…
- Nervous colon syndrome A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions (motility)…
- Deep A device put within the body that is designed to recognize certain types of abnormal heart rhythms…
- Active immunity The production of antibodies against a specific agent by the immune system. Active immunity can be acquired…
- Linkage analysis Study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Today linkage analysis serves as a way of gene-hunting and…
- TSC1 The tuberous sclerosis 1 gene. The product of the TSC1 gene is a protein called hamartin. This protein…
- Xenotropic virus A virus that can grow in the cells of a species foreign to the normal host species, a species different from…
- Recuperate To recover health and strength. From the Latin recuperare meaning to regain, get back, recover. To recuperate…
- Lytic Suffix having to do with lysis (destruction), as in hemolytic anemia, the excessive destruction of red blood…
- Nasal septum deviation Failure of the nasal septum to be in the midline where it is supposed to be. (The nasal septum is the wall…