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Fear of pleasure
An abnormal, excessive, and persistent fear of pleasure. Sufferers with this most puritanical of phobias typically feel guilty about experiencing pleasure even though they usually realize rationally there is nothing at all wrong with…
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- Blood pressure The blood pressure is the pressure of the blood within the arteries. It is produced primarily by the…
- Vesicular rickettsiosis A mild infectious disease first observed in New York City, caused by Rickettsia akari, transmitted from its…
- Pediatric Pertaining to children
- Mediastinoscopy A procedure in which the doctor inserts a tube into the chest to view the organs in the mediastinum. The tube…
- Cyclooxygenase-2 See: Cox-2
- Conjunctival Pertaining to the conjunctiva, the clear moist membrane that covers the inner surfaces of the eyelids and the…
- Proxy, health care A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives pertain to treatment…
- MVP In medicine, not the most valuable player but mitral valve prolapse
- Trismus-pseudocamptodactyly syndrome See: Hecht syndrome
- NLM (National Library of Medicine) The world's largest medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part of the National…
- STARI See: Hypnic jerk.