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Acute idiopathic polyneuritis
Also known as the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder characterized by progressive symmetrical paralysis and loss of reflexes, usually beginning in the leg, with in most cases nearly complete or complete recovery. The Guillain-Barre…
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Show more- Treatment, symptomatic Therapy that eases the symptoms without addressing the basic cause of the disease. For example, symptomatic…
- Anatomy, Gray's See: Gray's Anatomy
- Intrauterine In the uterus (the womb). As opposed to extrauterine: outside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies are…
- MCI Mild cognitive impairment
- Observer variation Failure by the observer to measure accurately, resulting in error. Observer variation may be due to the…
- Mania An abnormally elevated mood state characterized by such symptoms as inappropriate elation, increased…
- Motherese The language spoken, all over the world, by mothers to their babies, before and after birth. Motherese is the…
- Slipped vertebra See: Spondylolisthesis
- Quackery Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of…
- Alarm clock headache A relatively rare form of headache in which the patient is awakened from sleep at the same time every night…
- Lamina A plate or layer. For example, the lamina arcus vertebrae, usually just called the lamina, are plates of bone…
- Moyamoya A pattern of progressive obstructive and occlusive cerebral arteritis (inflammation of the cerebral arteries…