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Syndrome, dengue shock
A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage (bleeding) and circulatory collapse (shock). Known also as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), it starts abruptly with high…
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- Alpha linolenic acid See: Alpha-linolenic acid
- Fifth cranial nerve The fifth cranial nerve is the trigeminal nerve. The trigeminal nerve is quite complex. It functions both as…
- Heteroerotic Having to do with sexual excitement toward the opposite sex. By contrast with alloerotic
- Therapeutic touch A practice derived from an ancient technique called laying on of hands. It is based on the premise that it is…
- Hepato- Prefix or combining form used before a consonant to refer to the liver. From the Greek hepar, liver
- Fear of travel An irrational and unreasonable fear of travel is called agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is a very complex phobia. It…
- Vesicular rickettsiosis A mild infectious disease first observed in New York City, caused by Rickettsia akari, transmitted from its…
- Pancytopenia, Fanconi See Fanconi anemia
- Hodgkin, Dorothy British crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner (1910-1994). Dorothy Crowfoot, as she was born, was educated…
- Metabolic Relating to metabolism, the whole range of biochemical processes that occur within us (or any living…
- HHV-2 Human herpesvirus 2, a virus that causes genital herpes, which is characterized by sores in the area of the…