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Silicosis
A form of lung disease resulting from occupational exposure to silica dust over a period of years. Silicosis causes slowly progressive fibrosis of the lungs, impairment of lung function and a tendency to tuberculosis of the lungs…
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Show more- Fixative A medium such as a solution or spray that preserves specimens of tissues or cells. Most biopsies and…
- Obtunded Mentally dulled. A person may be obtunded due to head trauma. To obtund is to dull or blunt. From the Latin…
- DXA bone scan See: DXA
- Mouth, dry See: Dry mouth
- Therapy, interpersonal See: Interpersonal therapy
- BP Commonly used abbreviation for blood pressure. On a medical chart, you might see 'BP90/60 T98.6 Ht60/reg…
- Fear of drinking alcohol An abnormal and persistent fear of drinking alcohol. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety about…
- Zenker's diverticulum See: Zenker diverticulum
- Film, tear See: Tear film
- Plague genome All of the DNA (the genome) of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, consisting of four rings…
- Vidian neuralgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Fever, relapsing See: Relapsing fever