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Sprue, nontropical
This condition results from an immune (allergic) reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat and related grains and present in many foods that we eat. Sprue causes impaired absorption and digestion of nutrients through the small…
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Show more- Leprosy See: Hansen disease
- Hypogeusia A reduced ability to taste things (to taste sweet, sour, bitter, or salty substances). Some people cannot…
- Oocyte A female germ cell in the process of development. The oocyte is produced in the ovary by an ancestral cell…
- Humoralism In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- Antiviral agent An agent that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…
- Gastric volvulus See: Volvulus
- Nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma See: Tylosis with esophageal cancer
- Structural scoliosis A fixed lateral (sideway) curve of the spine. Structural scoliosis often occurs from unknown factors without…
- Epilepsy, temporal lobe See: Epilepsy, temporal-lobe
- Ab- Prefix meaning 'from, away from, off' as in abduction (movement of a limb away from the midline of the body)…
- Colorectal adenoma and carcinoma 1 Abbreviated CRAC1. Also known as hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. See: Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome
- Mitochondrial inheritance The inheritance of a trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome. Because of the oddities of mitochondria…