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Insomnia, chronic
Insomnia that occurs most nights and lasts a month or more. The treatment of chronic insomnia consists of: > >First, the diagnosis and treatment of underlying medical or psychological problems. >The identification of behaviors that may…
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Show more- Sarcoma One of a group of tumors usually arising from connective tissue. Most sarcomas are malignant. Many types are…
- Bariatric surgery Surgery on the stomach and/or intestines to help a person with extreme obesity lose weight. Bariatric surgery…
- Stiff lung See: ARDS
- Colorectal adenoma and carcinoma 1 Abbreviated CRAC1. Also known as hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. See: Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome
- Cutis anserina Better known as goose bumps, a temporary local change in the skin when it becomes rougher due to erection of…
- Keratitis Inflammation of the cornea (the transparent structure in the front of the eye).
- Off-pump Not on the pump, usually meaning not on the heart-lung machine. See also: Off-pump surgery
- Children of the night Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Symptom Any subjective evidence of disease. Anxiety, lower back pain, and fatigue are all symptoms. They are…
- Syndrome, Hurler An inherited error of metabolism in which there is deficiency of the enzyme alpha-L-iduronidase which…
- Two-faced twins Twin: Known medically as diprosopus, two-faced twins are conjoined twins (incompletely separated identical…
- Syndrome, battered child A disease in which children are physically abused. The battered child syndrome is a form of child abuse. Not…