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Sleep paralysis
A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to move for a few minutes, most often upon falling asleep or waking up. Sleep paralysis is due to an ill-timed disconnection between the…
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- Hetero- Chromosomal material that is darkly staining and tightly coiled throughout the cell cycle and that is, for…
- Della Robbia The infant in swaddling, today the symbol of pediatrics, sculpted by the Florentine artist Andrea della…
- Vibration white finger The original name for a painful and potentially disabling condition of the fingers, hans, and arms due to…
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome An autoimmune disease characterized by weakness and fatigue of the proximal muscles (those near the trunk)…
- Angioedema Like hives but affects deeper skin layer.
- Concordant 1. Showing concordance, complete agreement. A couple may be concordant for a sexually transmitted infection…
- Prepubertal Before puberty, the period during which secondary sex characteristics start to develop and the capability for…
- Pneumococcal immunization Vaccination to help prevent infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as the pneumococcus bacterium…
- Nematodes Roundworms.
- Sea poisoning An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Jejunum Part of the small intestine. It is half-way down the small intestine between its duodenum and ileum sections…