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Chronic bacterial prostatitis
Prostatitis: Longstanding bacterial infection of the prostate gland superimposed on a defect in the prostate. (The prostate is a small organ below the bladder which surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries urine down from the bladder.)…
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Show more- Morton toe See: Morton's syndrome
- Bladder infection Infection of the urinary bladder. Some people are at more risk for bladder and other urinary tract infections…
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve One of the best known branches of the vagus nerve, a very long nerve that originates in the brainstem. After…
- Uracil (U) A nucleotide base and one member of the A-U (adenine-uracil) base pair in RNA. The other base pair in RNA is…
- Bones of the arm, wrist and hand There are 64 bones in the upper extremity. They consist of 10 shoulder and arm, 16 wrist and 38 hand bones. >…
- Antineoplastic Acting to prevent, inhibit or halt the development of a neoplasm (a tumor). An agent with antineoplastic…
- Pulseless disease Takayasu disease. Called pulseless disease because inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) can lead to…
- Senile lentigo A benign pigmented flat spot on sun-exposed skin in older adults, especially on the back of the hands and on…
- Syndrome, carpal tunnel See Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Psychodynamic drug See: Psychotropic drug
- Wasting 1. Gradual loss (for example, of weight), deterioration, emaciation. As in a wasting disease. 2. Excessive…
- Lentigines When there is one lentigo, there are usually more lentigines