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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Typhoid
See: Typhoid fever
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- Seizure, Jacksonian See: Jacksonian seizure
- Suprarenal gland See adrenal gland.
- Oliguria Less urination than normal.
- Thyroiditis, autoimmune See: Hashimoto thyroiditis
- HHV-7 Human herpesvirus 7
- Binge eating disorder Binge eating disorder: An eating disorder characterized by periods of extreme over-eating, but not followed…
- Two-faced twins Twin: Known medically as diprosopus, two-faced twins are conjoined twins (incompletely separated identical…
- Pasteurization A method of treating food by heating it to a certain point to kill pathogenic (disease-causing) organisms but…
- Gingivitis, phagedenic This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Jewish penicillin Chicken soup. If not really a form of penicillin,' chicken soup may, in fact, have some therapeutic merit. A…
- Level 1 biosafety >Level 1 -- This level applies to agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease. >Level 2 -- This level…