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Cardiovascular
The circulatory system comprising the heart and blood vessels which carries nutrients and oxygen to the tissues of the body and removes carbon dioxide and other wastes from them. Cardiovascular diseases affect the heart and blood vessels…
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Show more- Disease, Cushing The constellation of symptoms and signs caused by an excess of cortisol hormone. Cushing disease (or…
- Parotitis Inflammation of the parotid glands. A classic feature of mumps.
- Antipsychotic A medication (or another measure) that is believed to be effective in the treatment of psychosis. For…
- Ochronosis 1. Deposition of dark pigment in connective tissues, usually due to alkaptonuria or exposure to chemicals…
- Cancer, uterus See: Uterine cancer
- Caudate nucleus In each hemisphere of the brain, the most medial of the four basal ganglia, partly responsible for body…
- EOG Electro-oculography. A type of electrophysiologic retinal testing
- DHF (dengue hemorrhagic fever) A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage…
- Contraction, uterine The tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles. During labor, contractions accomplish two things: (1)…
- Annotate In genetics, to identify the locations and the coding regions of genes in a genome and determine what those…
- Visceral leishmaniasis A chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease of the viscera (particularly the liver, spleen, bone marrow…
- Valley fever A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…