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Meniere disease
Meniere disease: A condition with recurrent vertigo accompanied by ringing in the ears (tinnitus) and deafness. Symptoms include vertigo, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, loss of hearing (in the affected ear), and abnormal eye movements…
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Show more- Low back pain Low back pain: Pain in the lower back area that can relate to problems with the lumbar spine, the discs…
- Plyometrics Any exercise in which muscles are repeatedly and rapidly stretched ('loaded') and then contracted (as in…
- Collagen disease A disease (autoimmune or otherwise) that attacks the collagen or other components of connective tissue, such…
- C. elegans Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm
- Sweat test A simple test that is used to evaluate a patient who is suspected of having cystic fibrosis (CF). The goal of…
- Neurotransmitter A chemical that is released from a nerve cell which thereby transmits an impulse from a nerve cell to another…
- Myocardium The heart muscle.
- Fear of vomiting An abnormal and persistent fear of vomiting. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they…
- Subscapular Under the scapula, like the subscapularis muscle, which originates beneath the scapula.
- Polychlorocamphene See: Toxaphene
- Change of life The change of life is the menopause, the time in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop…
- Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) A gas that can cause general anesthesia. Nitrous oxide is sometimes given in the company of other anesthetic…