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Night sweats
Night sweats: Severe hot flashes which occur at night and result in a drenching sweat. Night sweats can have many different causes including medications, infections, and cancers.
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Show more- Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum See: Goldenhar syndrome
- Buschke scleredema See: Scleredema
- Neurological Having to do with the nerves or the nervous system
- Pathological hoarding Excessive hoarding of material goods, a condition that affects up to 40% of people with obsessive compulsive…
- Filial 1. In genetics, the first generation that results from the crossing of two parental lines, as the filial…
- Epilepsy, grand mal See: Grand mal
- Positional cloning Cloning a gene based simply on knowing its position in the genome without any idea of the function of that…
- Coal miner's pneumoconiosis See: Black lung disease
- Fibroma A mass composed of fibrous tissue or connective tissue. Also called a fibroid tumor or fibroid
- ADH (antidiuretic hormone) A peptide molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain after being made nearby…
- Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) An hereditary cancer syndrome which carries a very high risk of colon cancer and an above-normal risk…
- Stage of expulsion See: Second stage of labor