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Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome: The sum total of the damage done to the child before birth as a result of the mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) always involves brain damage, impaired growth, and head and face…
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Show more- Transplant The grafting of a tissue from one place to another, just as in botany a bud from one plant might be grafted…
- Rhinoplasty Rhinoplasty: Plastic surgery on the nose, known familiarly as a nose job. Rhinoplasty is a facial cosmetic…
- Edema, lymphatic See: Lymphedema>
- Primary care The 'medical home' for a patient, ideally providing continuity and integration of health care. All family…
- Apert syndrome acrocephalosyndactyly An inherited disorder causing abnormalities of the skull, face and hands and feet. There is premature closure…
- Chandipura virus A virus that causes fever, symptoms similar to those of flu, and acute encephalitis (inflammation of the…
- Dioxin One of a number of poisonous petroleum-derived chemicals which are produced when herbicides (substances used…
- Bone marrow Bone marrow: The soft blood-forming tissue that fills the cavities of bones and contains fat and immature and…
- Hemiplegic Pertaining to hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body.
- OPV Oral polio vaccine. See Polio vaccine, oral
- Asian cholera A devastating and sometimes lethal disease with intense vomiting and profuse watery diarrhea was discovered…
- Absenteeism The frequent absence from work or other duty without good reason. See also: Presenteeism