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Bronchitis, chronic
Defined clinically as a daily cough with production of sputum for 3 months, two years in a row. In chronic bronchitis, there is inflammation and swelling of the lining of the airways that lead to narrowing and obstruction of the airways…
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- Poisoning, sea An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Rohypnol The trade name for flunitrazepam, which has been abused as a 'date rape' drug. Rohypnol produces…
- Cousin marriage Marriage involving cousins. Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are generally innocuous…
- Otitis media, acute See: Acute otitis media
- AFAP Attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis
- Immunoglobulin D Abbreviated IgD. A class of immunoglobulins found as antibodies on the surface of B cells (B lymphocytes)…
- Beta-secretase An enzyme that appears to be directly involved in the early development of Alzheimer's disease…
- Alpha linolenic acid See: Alpha-linolenic acid
- EBM Evidence-based medicine
- Hemorrhagic cyst This type of functional cyst occurs when bleeding occurs within a cyst. Symptoms such as abdominal pain on…
- Tyrosinemia type II A metabolic genetic disease due to deficiency of the enzyme tyrosine transaminase. The disease is…