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RVF
1. Rift Valley fever, the disease and the virus that causes it.2. Right ventricular failure, failure of the right ventricle of the heart.3. Residual volume fraction, a measure proportional to the ambulatory venous pressure
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Show more- CLL Chronic lymphocytic leukemia. See: Leukemia, chronic lymphocytic
- Ambien Brand name for the sedative hypnotic drug zolpidem used for sleep. For more information, see: zolpidem
- Undulatant Having a wavy border or form. Also, rising and falling like a wave. For example, the border of a wound may be…
- MSUD Abbreviation for maple syrup urine disease
- Smoke, second-hand Environmental tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily or passively by someone who is not smoking…
- Bradycardia A slow heart rate, usually defined as less than 60 beats per minute. The word bradycardia is logically…
- Cotton rat A rodent capable of carrying the types of hantavirus that cause HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) in the…
- Allergic granulomatous angiitis See: Churg-Strauss syndrome
- Phrenology The study of variations in size, shape, and proportion of the cranium. Phrenology was a pseudoscience of the…
- Lactose intolerance Lactose intolerance: Inability to digest lactose, a component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose…
- Neuron, sensory See: Sensory neuron
- Giant intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski. See: Fasciolopsis