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Muscular dystrophy, myotonic
Myotonic dystrophy, an inherited disease in which the muscles contract but have decreasing power to relax -- this phenomenon is termed myotonia (irritability and prolonged contraction of muscles). The disease also produces leads to a…
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- Wordprocessor's cramp A form of focal dystonia caused by wordprocessing that affects the muscles of the hand and, sometimes, the…
- HCFA The Health Care Finance Administration, the part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
- Tendonitis, patellar See: Patellar tendonitis
- Heritable Capable of being transmitted from parent to child.
- Menstruation Menstruation: The periodic blood that flows as a discharge from the uterus. Also called menorrhea, the time…
- Pneumonic plague Infection of the lungs by Yersina pestis, the bacterial agent that causes the plague, a disease of animals…
- Renal cell carcinoma Cancer that develops in the lining of the renal tubules, which filter the blood and produce the urine. Also…
- Category 2 storm See: Category two hurricane
- Physiologic Something that is normal, neither due to anything pathologic nor significant in terms of causing illness
- Tube, Eustachian The tube that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx. The function of the Eustachian tube is to protect…
- Calculus 1. A stone within the body, such as a stone in the urinary tract. 2. The calcium salt deposits on the teeth…