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Lactic acidosis
Acidosis (too much acid in the body) due to the buildup of lactic acid in the body. Lactic acidois occurs when cells make lactic acid (from glucose) faster than it can be metabolized. The key signs of lactic acidosis include unusually deep…
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Show more- Test, eye chart This test measures how well you see at various distances. The eye chart itself -- the usual one is called…
- Incubation period In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Ulcerative colitis Ulcerative colitis: A relatively common disease that causes inflammation of the large intestine (the colon)…
- Transplant, heart See: Heart transplant
- Lassa fever An acute viral infection found in the tropics, especially in West Africa. Epidemics of Lassa fever have…
- Itch, ocean An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Transplant, bone marrow See: Bone marrow transplant
- Enterostomy A surgical operation that opens the small intestine and brings it through the abdominal wall to create a new…
- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Atriodigital dysplasia See: Holt-Oram syndrome
- Blood sugar, low The sugar here is glucose. Low blood glucose constitutes hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is only significant when…
- Vertical transmission Passage of a disease-causing agent (a pathogen) vertically from mother directly to baby during the perinatal…