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Hypomanic
Affected by hypomania, a condition similar to mania but less severe. Hypomanic episodes may resemble manic episodes in symptoms. But hypomanic episodes do not cause significant distress or greatly impair one's work, family, or social life…
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- Microcephaly Microcephaly: An abnormally small head due to failure of brain growth. In precise terms, microcephaly is a…
- Triskaidekaphobia Fear of the number 13. Written reference to this fear dates to the late 1800s. The term triskaidekaphobia…
- Tarantismo See: Tarantism.
- Genome, Hereford See: Bovine genome
- Neurosteroid A brain steroid, a molecule structurally similar to cortisone, progesterone and the gonadal hormones…
- DXA Dual X-ray absorptometry. A technique for scanning bone and measuring bone mineral density (BMD). A DXA…
- Diagnosis, differential The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for…
- Allergy, honey bee See: Honey bee allergy
- Dissecting aneurysm A localized widening (dilatation) of an artery (an aneurysm) in which the wall of an artery rips (dissects)…
- Anergy A state of immune unresponsiveness. Induced when the T cell's antigen receptor is stimulated, effectively…
- Disease, His Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart), this is a…