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Disease, Raynaud
A condition resulting in skin discoloration of the fingers and/or toes when a person is exposed to changes in temperature (cold or hot) or to emotional events. This condition can occur alone or as a part of another disease (such as…
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- Dissociation In psychology and psychiatry, a perceived detachment of the mind from the emotional state or even from the…
- Diabetes, labile A type of diabetes when a person's blood glucose (sugar) level often swings quickly from high to low and from…
- Peritonitis, chronic Longstanding inflammation of the peritoneum, the membrane lining the inner wall of the abdomen and pelvis…
- Pain, ankle Pain felt in the low or upper back. There are many causes of back pain. Pain in the low back can relate to…
- Fear of money An abnormal and persistent fear of money. Sufferers experience undue anxiety even though they realize their…
- Pneumococcal immunization Vaccination to help prevent infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as the pneumococcus bacterium…
- Placenta praevia A placenta implanted near the outlet of the uterus, so that at the time of delivery the placenta precedes the…
- Mordant A substance capable of deepening the reaction to a stain (as in the pathology laboratory); incisive; burning…
- Hyperglycemic response A response resulting in a high blood sugar and specifically elevating the level of the sugar glucose in the…
- Infection, ear (acute middle) Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Nomenclature A system of names used in a particular discipline, as in medicine and surgery, anatomy and biochemistry, etc…