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Acute membranous gingivitis
This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and…
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- Cod liver oil An oil extracted from the liver of the cod. Cod liver oil was once given religiously to children every day as…
- Risk of recurrence In medical genetics, the chance that a genetic (inherited) disease present in a family will recur in that…
- Opening, vaginal The opening to the muscular canal extending from the cervix to the outside of the body. The word 'vagina' is…
- Digestive a Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst Diabetes and Diabetes and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Postmaturity Overly mature, overly developed, especially as regards a baby. A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after…
- Neuroradiologist A radiologist who specializes in the use of radioactive substances, x-rays and scanning devices for the…
- Cutaneous Relating to the skin. As, for example, in cutaneous allodynia, a cutaneous papilloma, and cutaneous…
- PTC (percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography) See: Cholangiography, percutaneous transhepatic
- Juvenile chronic arthritis, systemic-onset See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss Abbreviated EDMD. A form of muscular dystrophy that begins in childhood or adolescence as a slowly…
- Piercing Using a sharp instrument, usually a needle, to make a temporary or permanent hole through an earlobe or other…