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Syndrome, SAPHO
SAPHO syndrome: SAPHO syndrome is an eponym for a condition which is characterized by a combination of: > >Synovitis -- inflammation of the joint lining (synovium), typically manifest as warmth, tenderness, pain, swelling, and stiffness of…
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Show more- Hotel-Dieu A name often given to a hospital in France during the Middle Ages. Hotel-Dieu literally means the hotel (of)…
- Speculum An instrument used to widen an opening to look within a passage or a cavity. For example, a speculum may be…
- Syndrome, trisomy 13 Condition with three rather than the normal two chromosomes #13. Children born with this syndrome have…
- Gingivitis, necrotizing This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease See: Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Bernard-Horner syndrome See: Horner syndrome
- Neuronitis, vestibular See: Vestibular neuronitis
- Certified midwife A midwife who has been certified by her state or national agency for credentialing midwives
- Torture An act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person…
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation The circulatory system comprising the heart and blood vessels which carries nutrients and oxygen to the…
- Vitamin requirements, infant Vitamins are organic substances that are essential in minute quantities for the proper growth, maintenance…
- Myxoma A benign tumor composed of primitive connective tissue. The plural is myxomas or myxomata