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Disease, pelvic inflammatory (PID)
Despite its seeming lack of gender, this term is applied to women only. PID refers exclusively to ascending infection of the female upper genital tract (the female structures above the cervix). PID is the most common and serious…
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Show more- Learning problem See: Learning disability
- Staging In regard to cancer, the process of doing examinations and tests to learn the extent of the cancer…
- Syndrome, Riley-Day See: Familial dysautonomia.
- Brachycephaly A short head, one that is short in diameter from front to back. Brachycephaly is a frequent feature of…
- Meningitis Inflammation of the meninges, usually due to a bacterial infection but sometimes from viral, protozoan, or…
- Stercolith See: Fecalith
- Typhus, endemic See Typhus, murine
- Alkalosis A dangerous decrease in the normal acidity of the blood. There is too much base in the blood and body. This…
- Spots, Brushfield's Speckled iris. Little white spots that slightly elevated on the surface of the iris and are arranged in a…
- Aphasia, amnesic See Anomia
- Hereditary ALS See: Familial ALS
- Neurocysticercosis Infection of the brain by the larval form of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. Neurocysticercosis is a form of…