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Show more- Heparin, low-weight A newer form of the drug heparin (brand name: Lovenox, Fragmin) that has a lower molecular weight than normal…
- Recurrent Back again. A recurrent fever is a fever that has returned after an intermission: a recrudescent fever
- Paralysis, infantile (polio) Infantile paralysis is an old synonym for poliomyelitis, an acute and sometimes devastating viral disease…
- Syndrome, trisomy 18 There are three instead of the normal two chromosomes #18. Children with this condition have multiple…
- Riley-Day syndrome Eponym for familial dysautonomia. See: Familial dysautonomia.
- Diabetes, juvenile-onset See Diabetes, type 1
- Flavin-containing monooxygenase-3 (FMO3) See Fish-odor syndrome
- Flutter Flutter is a rapid vibration or pulsation. The difference between flutter and fibrillation is that flutter is…
- Paraplegia Paralysis of the lower part of the body including the legs. As in flaccid or spastic paraplegia. The suffix…
- Y-linked gene A gene on the Y chromosome. (Y-linkage is analogous to X-linkage (the presence of a gene on the X chromosome)…
- GOLD-1 One of the stages of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), according to the Global Initiative for Chronic…
- Prusiner See: Prusiner, Stanley B.