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Bulimia
Bulimia: Also called bulimia nervosa. An eating disorder characterized by episodes of secretive excessive eating (binge-eating) followed by inappropriate methods of weight control, such as self-induced vomiting (purging), abuse of…
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- Twilight sleep Sleep: A term applied to the combination of analgesia (pain relief) and amnesia (loss of memory) produced by…
- Leg In popular usage, the leg extends from the top of the thigh down to the foot. However, in medical…
- Ankylosing Undergoing ankylosis (stiffening or fusion of a joint)
- ETM2 A gene for essential tremor, uncontrollable shaking of the hands and head and sometimes other parts of the…
- Absorption Uptake. In the biomedical sciences, absorption has diverse specific meanings. In the body, absorption is the…
- Brain edema See: Cerebral edema
- Atrioventricular node The atrioventricular (AV) node is an electrical relay station between the atria (the upper) and the…
- Toxicogenomics The collection, interpretation, and storage of information about gene and protein activity in order to…
- Bromine A brownish-red element that is a liquid at room temperature, dissolves in water, and has a bleach-like…
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) The combination therapy of estrogen plus progestogen, termed hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Estrogen…
- Acute HIV infection The body's initial reaction to infection by the HIV virus. Acute HIV infection is a flu-like syndrome that…