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Tuberculosis, miliary
The presence of numerous sites of tuberculosis infection each of which is minute, due to dissemination of infected material through the bloodstream in a process somewhat like the metastasis of a malignancy. The word 'miliary' is a…
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- Absence seizure A seizure that takes the form of a staring spell. The person suddenly seems to be 'absent.' An absence…
- Affect The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the…
- Morton metatarsalgia See: Morton's neuroma
- Radiology, interventional The use of image guidance methods to gain access to the deepest interior of most organs and organ systems…
- Arthritis, quackery Like many people with chronic ailments, sufferers from arthritis are potentially vulnerable to proponents of…
- Lab Short for a laboratory (or a Labrador retriever)
- Oil, tropical Coconut, palm kernel or palm oil. Like all fats and oils, these three oils contain various types of fatty…
- Working memory Short-term (recent) memory. Working memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information…
- His-Werner disease This is a parasite (louse-borne) disease that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was…
- PET scan The popular name (and abbreviation) of Positron Emission Tomography
- E. coli O157:H7 A dangerous form of Escherichia coli, the colon bacillus, a bacterium that normally lives in the human colon…