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- Insomnia Insomnia that occurs most nights and lasts a month or more. The treatment of chronic insomnia consists of…
- Gastrostomy, percutaneous endoscopic (PEG) A surgical procedure for placing a feeding tube without having to perform an open laparotomy (operation on…
- Enzyme replacement A strategy designed to replace missing enzyme activity in a patient. This strategy currently involves the…
- Focal dystonia due to torticollis Spasm of the muscles in the neck that control the position of the head, causing the head to twist and turn to…
- Triglycerides The major form of fat. A triglyceride consists of three molecules of fatty acid combined with a molecule of…
- PVC Premature ventricular contraction. See: Extrasystole
- Deafness and keratopachydermia See Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome.
- Lingelsheimia A group of bacteria named after W. von Lingelsheim. Now known as Acinetobacter. See: Acinetobacter
- Nephrectomy The surgical removal of a kidney. A nephrectomy can be radical, simple, or partial. The kidney, the adrenal…
- Imperforate anus A congenital malformation (a birth defect) in which the rectum is a blind alley (a cul-de-sac) and there is…
- Null mutation A mutation (a change) in a gene that leads to its not being transcribed into RNA and/or translated into a…