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Entomophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of insects. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize that most insects pose no threat. To avoid insects, they may frequently clean rooms and carpets, sweep hallways, spray insect-killer or seal…
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- Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) Distinguished Canadian-American bacteriologist and research physician and one of the founders of…
- Health, Inuit See: Artic health
- Gland, mammary One of the glands within the breast that secrete milk when prompted to do so by special hormones. Mammary…
- VWM Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter, an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children…
- Perrault syndrome An extraordinary genetic syndrome that is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and affects both males…
- Brain plasticity See Neuroplasticity
- Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy A procedure using laparoscopic techniques to remove the uterus (womb) and/or tubes and ovaries through the…
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura A 'wastepaper basket' for those cases of immune thrombocytopenic purpura whose cause is still unknown. See…
- Dumping syndrome A group of symptoms that occur when food or liquid enters the small intestine too rapidly. These symptoms…
- Immunization, H. flu This immunization is designed to prevent disease due to Haemophilus influenzae (H. flu), specifically…