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Maturity onset diabetes of the young
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- Smallpox vaccination adverse reaction An adverse event occurring after smallpox vaccination (vaccinia). Smallpox vaccination is a relatively safe…
- Equinophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of horses. Sufferers of equinophobia experience undue anxiety even when a…
- Arthritis, degenerative A type of arthritis caused by inflammation, breakdown, and eventual loss of the cartilage of the joints. Also…
- Stewart See: Stewart, Alice
- Transplant, liver See: Liver transplant
- Migraine headache Migraine headache: The most common type of vascular headache involving abnormal sensitivity of arteries in…
- Single gene disease Any genetic disorder caused by a change affecting only one gene. There are thousands of single-gene diseases…
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia Elevation of the bilirubin level in the blood of the newborn, which results in yellowish staining of the skin…
- Nostril One of the openings in the nose that allows air to flow in and out of the nasal cavities. The word nostril…
- R-tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator