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Fragile X syndrome
Fragile X syndrome: One of the most common causes of inherited mental retardation and neuropsychiatric disease in human beings, affects as many as one in 2000 males and one in 4000 females. The syndrome is also known as FRAXA (the fragile…
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Show more- RXT Medical abbreviation for radiotherapy
- Deficiency, hexosaminidase A See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Still's Disease See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid.
- Deafness and keratopachydermia See Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome.
- Altitude, acclimatization to >The depth of respiration increases; >The pressure in the pulmonary arteries increases, forcing blood into…
- Dextrocardia The heart is reversed and is in the right side of the chest rather than in its normal location on the left…
- Chaperone Dry, cracked or sore lips, usually in cold, windy, dry weather and less often in warm weather. Sun exposure…
- Beals, Rodney K. The hair that normally grows on the male face after puberty. Testosterone, the most potent of the naturally…
- MLVT Malattia leventinese
- Orbital ridge The bony ridge beneath the eyebrow
- Secretary's knee The patellofemoral syndrome (PFS), the commonest cause of chronic knee pain. PFS characteristically causes…
- Effusion, pericardial See: Pericardial effusion