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Varicella (chickenpox)
A highly infectious viral disease, known familiarly as chickenpox. (In many countries, this disease is always called 'varicella.') Chickenpox has nothing at all to do with chicken. The name was meant to distinguish this 'weak' form of the…
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- Keratosis, solar Synonymous with actinic keratosis. See: Keratosis, actinic
- Peeping tom Eurism): Peeping tom (voyeurism) is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an…
- Family practice The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family…
- EBV Epstein-Barr virus, best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis ('mono'). Infection with EBV is…
- Encephalitis Inflammation of the brain. Encephalitis occurs, for example, in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. It may start (up…
- Breast trauma Breast trauma: Physical damage to a breast. If a breast is injured by trauma, tiny blood vessels may rupture…
- Thyroiditis Thyroiditis: Inflammation of the thyroid gland which is located in front of the neck: NTER> The inflamed…
- Syndrome, Stevens-Johnson A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- PCP Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. A parasitic infection of the lungs that is particularly common and…
- Fever, hemorrhagic A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and…
- Variant angina Angina: Chest pain due to coronary artery spasm, a sudden constriction of a coronary artery (one of the…