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Diabetic skin disease
A skin disorder that is caused by diabetes or affected by diabetes. Skin disorders are common in diabetes. Some of these disorders are conditions that anyone can have but to which people with diabetes are particularly prone, such as…
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Show more- Qualm 1. Sickness, disease, pestilence, or death. As in 'A thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [not dead of…
- Cranial nerve X The tenth cranial nerve, and one of the most important, is the vagus nerve. All twelve of the cranial nerves…
- Tension 1) The pressure within a vessel, such as blood pressure: the pressure within the blood vessels. For example…
- Chancroid A sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi. Periodic outbreaks of…
- Amelioration Not a word confined to medicine but a word used in medicine, amelioration is synonymous with improvement. If…
- Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia Elevation of the bilirubin level in the blood of the newborn, which results in yellowish staining of the skin…
- Alternating hemiplegia syndrome See: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Oligodendrocyte A type of cell in the central nervous system. The oligodendrocytes surround and insulate the long fibers (the…
- Neuropathologist A pathologist who specializes in the diagnosis of diseases of the brain and nervous system by microscopic…
- Biopsy, skin See: Skin biopsy
- Clap Gonorrhea, a bacterial infection transmitted by sexual contact. Gonorrhea is one of the oldest known sexually…
- Female urethral opening The urethra is the transport tube leading from the bladder to discharge urine outside the body. In females…