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Brain edema
See: Cerebral edema
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- Vitamin requirements, infant Vitamins are organic substances that are essential in minute quantities for the proper growth, maintenance…
- Shoulder pain Pain in the shoulder due to an injury or disease. The design of the shoulder joint is such that it sacrifices…
- Incompetent cervix A cervix that is abnormally liable to dilate and so is not competent to keep the fetus up in the uterus and…
- Contrast nephropathy A form of acute renal failure that starts soon after administration of contrast media (dye) for X-rays. The…
- Encephalopathy, mitochondrial (MELAS) MELAS is the acronym for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Strokelike episodes. MELAS is a…
- Z chromosome A sex chromosome in certain animals, such as chickens, turkeys, and moths. In humans, males are XY and…
- Cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic Heart disease. A nonspecific term applicable to any and all diseases of the heart. From cardio- + the Greek…
- STL3 Stickler syndrome, type III. See: Stickler syndrome
- Hypnagogic hallucination A vivid dreamlike hallucination that occurs as one is falling asleep. The opposite of an hypnopompic…
- Suppurate To form or discharge pus. The adjective is suppurative, as in suppurative arthritis. The noun is suppuration…