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Gesundheit
Interjection used to wish 'good health,' especially to someone who has sneezed. In this situation, Gesundheit is roughly equivalent to 'God bless you.' In German 'Gesundheit' means 'health' (and 'sanity'). Wishing 'good health' was once…
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- Breast, infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the Infiltrating lobular carcinoma is the second most common type of invasive breast cancer next to infiltrating…
- Triphalangeal Having three phalanges in a digit normally composed of only two
- Tinea incognito Tinea corporis, a common fungal infection of the skin, better known as ringworm, whose appearance has been…
- Malformation A structural defect in the body due to abnormal embryonic or fetal development. There are many types of…
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Commun. Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD): One of the US National Institutes of Health. The mission…
- PTCA A winglike triangular membrane. Although a pterygium can be anywhere, including behind the knee, it commonly…
- FFI Fatal familial insomnia
- Lipoid nephrosis The earliest stage of nephrosis (the nephrotic syndrome of childhood). See: Minimal change disease. See also…
- Autoimmune process A process in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys body tissue that it mistakes for foreign…
- Combined oral contraceptive Commonly called 'the pill,' combined oral contraceptives are the most commonly used form of reversible birth…
- Vaccination, chickenpox See Chickenpox immunization