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Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia
Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: Abbreviated ANLL. More commonly called acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A quickly progressive malignant disease in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow, the cells…
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Show more- Pathogen An agent of disease. A disease producer. The term pathogen most commonly is used to refer to infectious…
- Salabrasion A technique in which salt or a salt solution is used to abrade the skin, for example to remove the pigment…
- Jackknife seizure See: Infantile spasms
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Ends Results See: SEER
- West Nile virus West Nile virus: The mosquito-borne virus that causes West Nile fever. One of the flaviviruses, a family of…
- Postulates, Koch's In 1890 the German physician and bacteriologist Robert Koch set out his celebrated criteria for judging…
- Heel stick A procedure in which a newborn baby's heel is pricked and then a small amount of the blood is collected…
- ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Fever, quintan Fever, quintan: Quintan means recurring every 5 days, the characteristic duration of trench fever. Quintan or…
- Surgery, video-assisted Surgery that is aided by the use of a video camera that projects and enlarges the image on a television…
- RTT (Rett syndrome) See Rett syndrome
- MGy Abbreviation for milligray