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Environmental medicine
The interactions between risk factors in the environment and human health. Environmental medicine focuses on the causes of disease in an environmental context. The environment creates exposures to many different physical, biological and…
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Show more- Arteria femoralis See: Femoral artery
- Amebiasis Infection of the intestines with amebae, especially with the ameba Entamoeba histolytica, characterized by…
- Cherubism A genetic disorder of childhood that leads to prominence of the lower face and an appearance reminiscent of…
- Mutism, akinetic A state in which a person is unspeaking (mute) and unmoving (akinetic). A textbook on clinical neurology…
- Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos See: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Hidradenitis suppurativa This is an illness characterized by multiple abscesses that form under the arm pits and in the groin area
- Coronal A coronal plane through the body is a vertical plane from head to foot and parallel to the shoulders
- Pes cavus Literally a hollow foot, pes cavus is a foot with too high an arch
- BCM Body cell mass
- Postoperative After surgery. As opposed to preoperative, before surgery
- Syndrome, Shulman's (Eosinophilic fasciitis) A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue…
- Pachydactyly Thick fingers or toes. A feature, for example, of neurofibromatosis. From the Greek pachys, thick + daktylos…