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Fever, chikungunya
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- Gesell Developmental Schedules A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell…
- Personality disorder A disorder characterized by the chronic use of mechanisms of coping in an inappropriate, stereotyped, and…
- Presbyopia Presbyopia: The loss of the eye's ability to change focus to see near objects. The reasons for this loss of…
- EC 1. Endocannabinoid.2. Extracranial.3. Embryonal carcinoma
- Bummed out Slang term for depression. For more, see: Depression
- Centric-fusion translocation A type of chromosome rearrangement, also called a Robertsonian translocation, in which there is fusion of an…
- Neuroma, optic A benign tumor of the optic nerve
- NEP 1. Neutral endopeptidase. See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase.2. Neuroepithelial
- Disorder, autoimmune See Autoimmune disease
- Chemo-fog See: Chemobrain
- Fasciculation Involuntary contractions or twitchings of groups of muscle fibers. Fasciculations can occur in normal…