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Histiocytosis X
Now called Langerhans cell histiocytosis. This disease is subclassified into eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer Siwe disease, and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease
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Show more- Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy See: Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- Battle fatigue The World War II name for what is known today as post-traumatic stress, this is a psychological disorder that…
- Sleep-disordered breathing A condition characterized by repeated episodes of hypopnea (underbreathing) and apnea (not breathing) during…
- Thyroiditis, autoimmune See: Hashimoto thyroiditis
- Mb Megabase
- Mycobacterium chelonae A type of bacteria related to that which causes tuberculosis and which is commonly found in soil and…
- End-stage renal disease ESRD. Chronic irreversible renal failure
- NAME syndrome Acronym for Nevi, Atrial myxoma, Myxoid neurofibroma, and Ephelides. Now included in the Carney complex. See…
- ET Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine
- Breast cancer gene BRCA2 See: BRCA2
- Reticulocyte A young red blood cell that usually remains in the bone marrow with only a few venturing out into the…
- Microphallus An abnormally small penis. Also called micropenis. In medical practice, the dimension of the penis that is…