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Contact dermatitis
A skin condition caused by contact between skin and some substance. Includes irritant contact dermatitis (a rash brought on purely by repeated irritation from a substance such as water causing 'dish pan hands') and allergic contact…
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Show more- Castleman disease A disorder of lymphoid tissue (lymphadenopathy) with massive overgrowth (hyperplasia) of lymph nodes…
- Quickening The moment during pregnancy when the baby is first felt to move
- Palliative care 1) Medical or comfort care that reduces the severity of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing…
- Therapy, fever Fever: Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by…
- Submandibular gland The second largest of the three major salivary glands. It is located deep to the mandible (jaw bone).
- Breast cancer gene BRCA1 A gene that normally acts to restrain the growth of cells in the breast but, when mutated, predisposes to…
- Biosafety The application of knowledge, techniques and equipment to prevent personal, laboratory and environmental…
- Telomerase An enzyme concerned with the formation, maintenance, and renovation of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes…
- Elbow bursitis Elbow bursitis: At the tip of the elbow (the olecranon area), there is a bursa, a fluid-filled sac that…
- Disease, Gilbert See Gilbert syndrome
- His disease This is a parasite (louse-borne) disease that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was…
- Aer-, aero- Prefix indicating a problem due to air or gas, such as aerogastria (excess stomach gas.