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Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar (glucose). When symptoms of hypoglycemia occur together with a documented blood glucose under 45 mg/dl, and the symptoms promptly resolve with the administration of glucose, the diagnosis of hypoglycemia can…
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Show more- Transforming principle Name originally given to DNA. In 1944 Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty published their discovery that the…
- Della Robbia The infant in swaddling, today the symbol of pediatrics, sculpted by the Florentine artist Andrea della…
- Vulvar Pertaining to the vulva, the female external genitalia including the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris…
- Wt Weight. Wt 80 lbs = weight 80 pounds.
- Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Borborygmus Bowel sounds, the gurgling, rumbling, or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions…
- Tropical diabetes Diabetes mellitus associated with chronic malnutrition and, sometimes, chronic pancreatitis. Whether tropical…
- Up-regulation See: Upregulation
- Genome, Yersinia pestis See: Plague bacterium genome
- Antonomastic Concerning, pertaining to, or characteristic of antonomasia. See also: Antonomasia
- Atloaxoid joint The joint between the atlas and axis bones. The atlas is the first cervical (neck) vertebra which is just…
- Salient Standing out. Projecting. When the true nature of a disease is poorly understood, it is often classified by…