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Iron
An essential mineral. Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen (via hemoglobin in red blood cells) and for oxidation by cells (via cytochrome). Deficiency of iron is a common cause of anemia. Food sources of iron include meat…
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Show more- Peliosis hepatis A rare condition in which the liver contains multiple, randomly-distributed blood-filled spaces or cavities…
- Placebo effect A positive medical response to taking a placebo, a sham medication as if it were an active medication. Up to…
- Test, RPR Rapid plasma reagin, a blood test for syphilis that looks for an antibody that is present in the bloodstream…
- Physiologic Something that is normal, neither due to anything pathologic nor significant in terms of causing illness
- Skin tag Skin tag: A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). Skin tags may appear on the skin almost…
- HSA 1. In the US, Health Saving Account.2. Human serum albumin
- ATN Acute tubular necrosis
- Autosome A chromosome that is not a sex chromosome. In other words, any one of the chromosomes save the sex…
- Supertaster A supertaster has an unusually large density of taste buds, each surrounded by pain fibers
- Disease, Cushing The constellation of symptoms and signs caused by an excess of cortisol hormone. Cushing disease (or…
- Klumpke's palsy See: Klumpke palsy
- Vulvar pain, chronic Also called essential vulvodynia (literally means 'painful vulva'), pain in the vulva, the female external…