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Infection, primary HIV
The first few months after infection with HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus). During primary HIV infection, seroconversion occurs -- the appearance of detectable antibodies to HIV in the blood. It normally takes several weeks to…
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Show more- Moral behavior center An area of the brain in what is known as the prefrontal cortex. Children who suffer damage before 16 months…
- Transsexualism A consistently strong desire to change one's anatomical gender. Some transsexuals were misassigned gender at…
- Acellular Not made up of cells or divided into cells. Or lacking intact cells as, for example, an acellular vaccine…
- Keratitis, rosacea See: Rosacea keratitis
- Kaposi sarcoma Sarcoma: A relatively rare type of skin malignancy that tends to afflict elderly people or, especially, those…
- Cardiac transplant See: Heart transplant
- Miscarriage, multiple More than one miscarriage for a woman. In multiple miscarriages, there is about a 5 percent chance that one…
- Reagent A substance used to produce a chemical reaction to detect, measure, produce, etc. other substances
- Fibrosis, pulmonary See: Pulmonary fibrosis
- Cal See: Calorie
- Induration Induration: Localized hardening of soft tissue of the body. The area becomes firm, but not as hard as bone
- Bursopathy Disease involving a bursa, a closed fluid-filled sac that supplies a gliding surface to reduce friction…