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Celsus
(1st century A.D.) Aulus (Aurelius) Cornelius Celsus. Roman encyclopedist whose only surviving work, De Medicina, was rediscovered and printed early in the Renaissance and became influential. His four classical signs of inflammation --…
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Show more- Developmental disorder One of several disorders that interrupt normal development in childhood. They may affect a single area of…
- Neuralgia, sphenopalatine A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Bullous pemphigoid Bullous pemphigoid: A disease characterized by tense blisters on the skin. The condition is caused by…
- Breast fibroadenoma A common benign (not malignant) tumor of the breast. Usually called simply a fibroadenoma. For more…
- Nymph A nymph is a stage in the life cycle of certain arthropods, as ticks and lice. (Not all nymphs are in Greek…
- Ovarian pregnancy An abnormal pregnancy that takes place within the ovary itself due to the development of a fertilized ovum…
- Anemia, Fanconi See Fanconi anemia
- Ophthalmitis Inflammation of the eye. Also known as ophthalmia
- DX Medical abbreviation for diagnosis. See: dx
- Recombinant A person with a new combination of genes, a combination of genes not present in either parent, due to…
- Cancer, cervix See: Cervical cancer
- Cruciate ligament, anterior The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…