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Reinstein syndrome
A heritable syndrome characterized by eye disease (specifically, macular degeneration and inverse retinitis pigmentosa), progressive hearing loss, and hypogonadism. Inverse retinitis pigmentosa differs from the common form of retinitis…
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Show more- Urgency, urinary An immediate unstoppable urge to urinate, due to a sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the…
- Heptad repeat A type of tandem repeat sequence in which a group of seven aminoacids occurs many times in a protein…
- MADH4 A tumor suppressor gene (also known as SMAD4/DPC4) located on chromosome 18 in band 18q21 1. About 15% to 20%…
- Di Bella cancer therapy An alternative medicine cancer treatment program developed by Dr. Luigi Di Bella based on a drug cocktail…
- Cardiac transplant See: Heart transplant
- Enterostomal therapist A health care specialist trained to help patients care for and adjust to their colostomy.
- ZNF9 A gene that encodes a protein called zinc finger protein 9. An inherited mutation in ZNF9 causes type 2…
- C peptide See: C-peptide
- Gorlin-Goltz syndrome See: Gorlin syndrome
- Aqueduct of the midbrain A canal that communicates between the third and fourth ventricles in a system of four communicating cavities…
- Colostomy, transverse A colostomy in which the exterior opening (stoma) is located on the upper abdomen
- Tuberculosis, miliary The presence of numerous sites of tuberculosis infection each of which is minute, due to dissemination of…