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Show more- Kidney transplant Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a renal transplant…
- African American An American of black African descent. The term may also be written with a hyphen as African-American. The…
- Disease Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs)…
- Conduction system, cardiac The electrical conduction system that controls the heart rate. This system generates electrical impulses and…
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy III A degenerative disorder of nerves with progressive spasticity of the legs. Abbreviated as AD-HSP. Spasticity…
- Field, visual The entire area that can be seen when the eye is directed forward, including that which is seen with…
- Goiter-deafness syndrome See Pendred syndrome
- Cranial nerve, eighth The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the…
- Acute epiglottitis A very rapidly progressive infection causing inflammation of the epiglottis (the flap that covers the…
- Granulocyte >Neutrophils have 'neutral' subtle granules; >Eosinophils have prominent granules that stain readily with the…
- Paroxysmal lacrimation See: Crocodile tears syndrome
- Syndrome, Turner-Kieser See Nail-patella syndrome