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Tumor, sweat gland
A benign (harmless) skin tumor called a syringoma that derives from cells related to sweat glands. (These particular specialized cells are scientifically referred to as eccrine.) NTER> Syringomas tend to appear during puberty or adult…
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Show more- Automated white cell differential A machine-generated percentage of the different types of white blood cells, usually split into granulocytes…
- Ductular hypoplasia, syndromatic hepatic Also called Alagille syndrome or arteriohepatic dysplasia, this is a genetic disorder characterized by…
- Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) An enzyme that helps dissolve clots. tPA is made by the cells lining blood vessels and has also been…
- SSPE Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a chronic brain disease of children and adolescents that occurs months…
- Base of tongue The back third of the tongue. In contrast to the anterior tongue, which is the front two-thirds of the…
- Music therapy The use of music in therapy; the therapeutic use of music. There are many different definitions of music…
- CBC A commonly used abbreviation in medicine that stands for complete blood count, a set values of the cellular…
- Fear of the number 13 A morbid fear of the number 13. Also known as triskaidekaphobia. Written reference to the superstitious fear…
- Late infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy See: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Multiple organ failure A term synonymous with multiple system failure and equally vague and nonspecific. See: Multiple system failure
- RNA interference Abbreviated RNAi. The introduction of double-stranded RNA into a cell to inhibit the expression of a gene…
- Reactant, acute-phase See: Acute-phase protein