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- Morton's neuroma Morton's neuroma: A swollen inflamed nerve in the ball of the foot, usually between the base of the second…
- Legg disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Multiple lentigines syndrome See: LEOPARD syndrome
- Grand mal A form of epilepsy characterized by tonic-clonic seizures. involving two phases -- the tonic phase in which…
- Gluten A protein found in wheat or related grains and many foods that we eat. Gluten can be found in a large variety…
- Heel bone Formally called the calcaneus. A more or less rectangular bone at the back of the foot. The words 'calcaneus'…
- Mask of pregnancy Muddy-brown pigmentation on the cheeks or elsewhere on the face that develops in about half of all women…
- Medication, ACE-inhibitor A drug that inhibits ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) which is important to the formation of angiotensin…
- Twilight sleep Sleep: A term applied to the combination of analgesia (pain relief) and amnesia (loss of memory) produced by…
- Cannonball pulse See: Pulse, water hammer